Poetry Trivia Questions
In case you missed them, here are the past five Columbia Granger's World of Poetry trivia questions of the day. .
August 18
Question:
What Elizabethan poet described Petrarch's influence on verse writing as being like Procrustes' bed?
Answer
Because the sonnet had become so popular that poems that were too short for the form were stretched to fit it and those too long for it were cut short, Ben Jonson likened Petrarch's influence to Procrustes' infamously adjustable bed.
August 17
Question:
What poet described T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" as "piece of rhythmical grumbling"?
Answer
T.S. Eliot himself.
August 16
August 15
Question:
What Beat Poet inspired Robert Lowell to stop writing formalist poems and develop the poetics of confession he would use in Life Studies ?
Answer
August 14
Question:
In 1974 what poet refused to accept the National Book Award as an individual, instead joining with two other female poets to accept it on behalf of all silenced women?
Answer
Adrienne Rich. She shared it with her co-nominees Alice Walker and Audre Lorde.
