Who wrote it?
O Captain! My Captain!
Walt Whitman
Name the poem containing the following lines:
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Sonnets from the Portuguese 43 (How Do I Love Thee?)
The title of the Wilfred Owen poem, Dulce et Decorum est, comes from what language?
Latin
Who wrote the poem, "Because I Could not Stop for Death"?
Emily Dickinson
Who wrote the poem, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"?
Robert Frost
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth
Name the poem containing the following lines:
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
This poet's unique style emerged from an isolated yet intensely observant life, having written over 1,800 poems, mostly discovered after her death, espousing themes of death, nature, faith, and personal emotion.
Emily Dickinson
Name the literary device used in the title of the poem, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
simile
This poet enlisted in the British Army in 1915 during WWI. Unfortunately, he was killed in battle while fighting on the front lines, about one week before the war ended.
Wilfred Owen
Valentine
Carol Ann Duffy
Name the poem containing the following lines:
Where are the songs of spring? Ay, Where are they?Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
To Autumn
The death of his mother at age eight (8) and subsequent separation from his siblings created a sense of isolation that influenced his later themes of solitude and nature's comfort.
William Wordsworth
As his poetry writing style broke away from traditional poetic forms to capture the rhythms of everyday American speech, this poet was known as the "Father of Free Verse".
Walt Whitman
Name the poem containing the following lines:
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which growshigher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
[i carry your heart with me(i carry in it]
Sonnets from the Portuguese 43
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Name the poem containing the following lines:
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
This Victorian Era British poet eventually moved to Italy and became a huge supporter of the Italian unification movement.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Valentine
Who wrote the poem, "[i carry your heart with me(i carry in it]"?
EE Cummings
Dulce et Decorum Est
Wilfred Owen
Name the poem containing the following lines:
We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –
Because I Could not Stop for Death
This poet volunteered as an ambulance driver in France and was mistakenly imprisoned by the French for suspected espionage.
EE Cummings
The title of the Wilfred Owen poem, "Dulce et Decorum Est," originally comes from the writing of which Roman poet of the early Roman Empire.
Horace
Who wrote the poem, "To Autumn"?
John Keats