Poetry Trivia Questions
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April 27
Question:
Whose brain was dropped on the floor, once he had died and left it to science?
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Walt Whitman's. Thomas Lux has written a poem about it "Walt Whiman's Brain Dropped on Laboratory Floor."
April 26
Question:
What poet and wit's epitaph reads, "When I am dead, I hope it may be said: / 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'"?
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April 25
Question:
What poet's epitaph reads, "And alien tears will fill for him / Pity's long broken urn, / For his mourners will be outcast men, / And outcasts always mourn"?
Answer
Oscar Wilde. The lines are taken from his poem "Ballad of Reading Gaol."
April 24
Question:
Whose death occasioned this epitaph from Lord Byron: "Near this spot / are deposited the remains of one / who possessed Beauty without Vanity, / Strength without Insolence, / Courage without Ferocity, / and all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. / This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery, / if inscribed over human Ashes, / is but a just Tribute to the memory of ..."
Answer
Boatswain, Byron's dog.
April 23
Question:
This is one poet's epitaph: "The poetic genius of my country found me at the plough and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue. I tuned my wild, artless notes as she inspired" Whose is it?
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