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

    Question:

    What poet's difficult first marriage is chronicled in the movie Tom and Viv ?

    Answer ->

    T.S. Eliot

  • 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.

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