Poetry Trivia Questions
In case you missed them, here are the past five Columbia Granger's World of Poetry trivia questions of the day. .
October 15
Question:
Who, in describing his aesthetic in a lecture, said, "Everything that has black sounds in it has duende"?
Answer
Federico García Lorca spoke these words in his famous lecture "Play and Theory of the Duende." Duende, as he describes it, is a particular type of soulfulness connected to the earth, death and illogic.
October 14
Question:
Who is credited with first popularizing the literary device known as a blason?
Answer
Clément Marot is credited as the source of this literary tradition. Shakespeare provides an ironic interpretation of this established device in his sonnet starting "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun."
October 13
Question:
Who, at the start of the Second World War, took a 26 year hiatus from poetry and focused on his career as a social worker?
Answer
Carl Rakosi, one of the original Objectivists, stopped writing and reading poetry from 1941 to 1967.
October 12
Question:
Which poem contains the advice "carpe diem quam minimum credula postero"?
Answer
Roughly translated as "seize the day, for the future believe the minimum," this bit of wisdom appears in Horace's "Ode 1" of Book 1 . The theme is taken up by the poets Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvell and Alfred Tennyson to name a few.
October 11
