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 25
Question:
What W.B. Yeats poem provided the title for Joan Didion's book of essays Slouching Towards Bethlehem ?
Answer
"The Second Coming." ("And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?")
June 24
Question:
What passionate relationship between poets in late nineteenth century France is dramatized in the movie Total Eclipse ?
Answer
The love affair between Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud
June 23
June 22
Question:
Of which poet did T.S. Eliot suggest that "[to write like him] is equivalent to ignoring the whole of science subsequent to Erasmus Darwin?"
Answer
William Wordsworth. Wordsworth was an admirer of Erasmus Darwin, a poet in his own right.
June 21
Question:
What poem did Ezra Pound publish in 1916, just as the bloody Somme offensive got underway?
Answer
"In a Station of the Metro." The poem, a classic of Imagism, seems strangely out of context for the year in which it was written.
