Poetry Trivia Questions
In case you missed them, here are the past five Columbia Granger's World of Poetry trivia questions of the day. .
June 16
Question:
What poem by Alfred Tennyson was composed at Tintern Abbey, a location made famous by William Wordsworth's "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"?
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June 15
Question:
What book of French poetry prompted Algernon Swinburne to write, "a poet's business is presumably to write good verse, and by no means to redeem the age and remold society," inaugurating the "art for art's sake" movement in Britain?
Answer
Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (or The Flowers of Evil ).
June 14
Question:
What famously flamboyant poet wrote of his life as a closeted homosexual: "And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, / None knew so well as I: / For he who lives more lives than one / More deaths than one must die"?
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June 13
Question:
What British Poet coined the now often referenced phrase "The White Man's Burden" as part of a justification for Imperialism?
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June 12
Question:
Two poets of the British Isles are referred to simply as "The Bard." One is English, one is Scottish. Who are they?
Answer
William Shakespeare and Robert Burns are from England and Scotland respectively.
