In 1960 The Colossus was the first book of poems published by which poetess?
Elizabeth Bishop
Sylvia Plath
Marianne Moore
Laura Jackson
Correct Answer :
B. Sylvia Plath
Related Questions
In his poem Kipling said If you can meet with triumph and . . . . . . . . .?
Glory
Ruin
Disaster
victory
Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?
Boer War
Second World War
Korean War
First World War
What is the earliest surviving European poem?
The Homeric epic
The Gilgamesh epic
The Deluge epic
The Hesiodic ode
What was strange about Emily Dickinson?
She rarely left home
She wrote in code
She never attempted to publish her poetry
She wrote her poems in invisible ink
chaucers franklin was guilty of which sin?
Lust
Corruption
Theft
Gluttony
How many languages did chaucer know?
2
4
1
5
from which language the name chaucer has been driven?
french
latin
italian
english
Which is an example of a proverb?
Get a stake in our business.
You cant have your cake and eat it, too
The snow was white as cotton.
Youre driving me crazy.
Who has defined poetry as a fundamental creative act using languages?
H. W. Longfellow
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dylan Thomas
William Wordsworth
which of these is magnum opus of chaucer?
Troilus and criseyde
House of fame
The canterbury tales
Parliament of fowls.
Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
The Epic
The Comic
The Occult
The Tragic
Why did Poetry Quarterly cease publication in 1953?
Owner convicted of fraud
Fall in Sales
Rise in taxation on magazines
Shortage of paper
Of Mans first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden. This is an extract from:
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
Samson Agonistes
Divorce Tracts
Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?
William Blake
William Shakespeare
William Morris
William Wordsworth
Which culture is known for their long, rhymic poetic verses known as Qasidas?
Hindu
Celtic
Arabic
Arameic
Carl Sandburg Planked whitefish contains what kind of imagery?
Sea scenes
Rural Idyll
War
Innocent childhood
How did W. H. Auden describe poetry?
An awful way to earn a living
A game of knowledge
The soul exposed
An explosion of language
Aldous Huxley was a poet, but was better known as what?
Politician
Dramatist
Novelist
Architect
What is the study of poetrys meter and form called?
Prosody
Potology
Rheumatology
Scansion
How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death?
24
31
21
28
In coleridges poem The rime of the Ancient Marinerwhere were the three gallants going?
A funeral
A wedding
Market
To the races
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
No difference. Simply two different ways in referring to the same thing.
A simile is more descriptive.
A simile uses as or like to make a comparison and a metaphor doesnt.
A simile must use animals in the comparison.
Harold Nicholson described which poet as Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners?
e. e. Cummings
T. S. Elliot
John Greenleaf Whittier
Walt Whitman
Which of the following is not an English poet (i. e. from England)?
Victor Hugo
Alexander Pope
John Milton
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is a sonnet?
A poem of six lines
A poem of eight lines
A poem of twelve lines
A poem of fourteen lines
Wlliam Shakespeare is not the author of:
Titus Andronicus
Taming of the Shrew
White Devil
Hamlet
Which Poet Laureate wrote about a church mouse?
Betjeman
Hughes
Marvel
Larkin
Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece?
John keats
Lord Byron
Solan
Sappho
Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
Masefield
Causley
Hughes
Larkin
Margaret Atwood was born in which Canadian city?
Vancouver
Toronto
Ottowa
Montreal