Poetic history
The poetic meter famously used by Shakespeare.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
Colloquial name for simple, short, vague poetry Focused usually on one simple thought and with few complete lines.
What is Instagram poetry?
A rhyming couplet in iambic pentameter.
What is a heroic couplet?
Poet who read for Joe Biden’s inauguration.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
Famous Tumblr blog run by a robot that detects a certain popular form of poem accidentally or unknowingly written by the site’s users.
who is The-Haiku-Bot?
The first epic poem written in English.
What is Beowulf?
Famous poetic movement of the mid and late 20th century focused on unfettered thought, poetic freedom, and political dissonance. Famous members include Jack Kerouac and Alan Ginsberg.
What is Beat Poetry?
Poetry written from the perspective of or in character as someone outside yourself or someone fictional.
What is persona poetry?
Author of both the Iliad and the Odessey
Who is Homer?
Successful musical based on a book of T. S. Elliot poems.
What is Cats?
The title poem of the last book banned on grounds of obscenity by the US federal government.
What is Alan Ginsberg’s Howl?
Poetic movement of Lord Byron, Percy Shelly, and John Keats among others.
What is British Romanticism?
Poetry that does not rhyme but does follow a metrical pattern, specifically iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
Famous poet who also wrote short stories, including The Pit and the Pendulum and The Fall of the House of Usher.
Who was Edgar Allen Poe?
The current poet laureate of the USA.
Who is Ada Limon?
the first line of the Iliad.
What is “Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles”?
The cultures Classic Poetry sought to imitate.
What are Greek and Latin?
A metrical foot containing three syllables, the first stressed and final two unstressed.
What is a dactyl?
The epic Poem by Virgil telling a fictional account of Rome’s legendary founder.
What is the Aeneid?
the genre of poetry Sappho of Lesbos specialized in.
What is lyric poetry?
The poet Dante follows around through purgatory in his Divine Comedy.
Who is Virgil?
Early 20th century poetic movement made famous by Ezra Pound and influenced by asian aesthetics.
What is Imagism?
The Fancy term for a poem set at night.
What is “nocturne”?
A Famous poem featuring such made up words as “frumious”, ”mimsy“, and “manxome“.
What is The Jabberwocky?
inscription on the statue’s pedestal in Ozymandias by Percy Shelly.
What is “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: /
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"?