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 5
Question:
In Manchester, England, in 1819, cavalry charged into a crowd that had gathered to protest for parliamentary reform and the repeal of the corn laws. 11people were killed and 500 were wounded in what was called the Peterloo Massacre. Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote a poem about it: what was the poem?
Answer
June 4
Question:
In his early poem "Sleep and Poetry" John Keats asked for ". . . ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy." How many years did Keats actually have to write?
Answer
Only seven, over the course of which he wrote 148 poems, 45 of which were published in his lifetime.
June 3
June 2
Question:
Who described William Blake's poem "Jerusalem," now England's unofficial national anthem, as a "perfectly mad poem"?
Answer
Robert Southey. Southey was poet laureate towards the end of Blake's life.
June 1
Question:
Jane Taylor's famous children's poem "The Star" (also known as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star") is a popular target for parody. Which is the best known?
Answer
"Lewis Carroll's. In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland the dormouse at the Mad Hatter's party, recites:
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a teatray in the sky. "
