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Poets
Scholar Bowl Practice
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Raven | Edgar Allen Poe |
| The New Colossus | Emma Lazarus |
| Sonnet 18 "Shall I compare thee to a summers's day?" | William Shakespeare |
| The Charge of the Light Brigade Tells the story of the Battle of Balaclava during Crimean War. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| O Captain! My Captain! (About Abraham Lincoln) | Walt Whitman |
| Paul Revere's Ride | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| The Road Not Taken & Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | Robert Frost |
| Jabberwocky | Lewis Carroll |
| Leaves of Grass (a collection of 389 poems) | Walt Whitman |
| And Still I Rise | Maya Angelou |
| I Carry Your Heart with Me much of his work uses idiosyncratic syntax and lower-case spellings for poetic expression | E. E. Cummings |
| ‘I’m Nobody! Who are you?’. | Emily Dickinson |
| "How Do I Love Thee?" (Sonnet 43) | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode to a Nightingale | John Keats |
| Where the Sidewalk Ends | Shel Silversein |
| The Giving Tree | Shel Silverstein |
| A Boy Named Sue (Turned into a song sung by Johnny Cash) | Shel Silverstein |
| Chicago Poems (a collection of 52 poems about Chicago) “Chicago,” “Fog,” “Who Am I?” “Subway” “They Will Say” | Carl Sandburg He is from Illinois! |
| Cornhuskers (collection of 104 poems-tribute to American Midwest) | Carl Sandburg (Born in Galesburg, IL) |