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 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"?
Answer
June 13
Question:
What British Poet coined the now often referenced phrase "The White Man's Burden" as part of a justification for Imperialism?
Answer
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.
June 11
Question:
What late 19th-century poetic movement was disparaged in Macmillan's Magazine as representing "a sick indifference to the things of our own time, and a spurious devotion to whatever is foreign, exotic, archaic or grotesque"?
Answer
The Pre-Raphaelites. Painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti was one of the co-founders.
June 10
Question:
What late 19th-century British poet declared, "I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living"?
Answer
Gerard Manly Hopkins. Hopkins was a Jesuit priest, and he added, "As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession."
