How well do you know poetry?
Test your knowledge for World Poetry Day 2016.
Fill in the missing word from Sylvia Plath’s poem Tulips. “The tulips are too red in the first place, they ______ me.”
bruise
cut
hurt
blind
Iambic pentameter contains how many sets of stressed and unstressed syllables?
4
5
6
7
Which of these poets has not been Poet Laureate in the UK?
Carol Ann Duffy
William Wordsworth
Ted Hughes
William Blake
Which country does the poetic style Haiku originate from?
South Korea
Japan
China
Australia
Which US poet wrote Song of Myself?
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allan Poe
Allen Ginsberg
Charles Bukowski
Which 20th-Century poet wrote these words? “You may tread me in the very dirt/But still, like dust, I'll rise.”
EE Cummings
Philip Larkin
Maya Angelou
Amiri Baraka
Who wrote The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock?
Robert Bly
Margaret Atwood
TS Eliot
James Joyce
The phrase “All hell broke loose” comes from which famous epic poem?
Paradise Lost
Don Juan
The Lord of the Isles
The Prelude
Who wrote the Portuguese epic Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads)?
Luís de Camões
Jorge de Sena
Eduardo Pitta
António Ferreira
Which poet coined the phrase “No man is an island”?
Andrew Marvell
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Keats
John Donne
You're poor when it comes to poetry.
You could be a poetry pro, but a bit more practice is needed.
You're well-versed in the particulars of poetry!