Final Lines
“Die soon.”
What is "We Real Cool?"
Born in the 7th century BC, this Greek poet's work survives only in fragments.
Who is Sappho?
The poet whose famous poem begins, "since feeling is first."
e.e. cummings
This form is comprised of 14 lines in iambic pentameter.
What is a sonnet?
The Baltimore NFL team is named after a poem by this poet.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
"I love you. I'm glad I exist."
What is, "The Orange?"
This story is the oldest surviving epic poem, written in the 3rd millennium BC.
What is, "The Epic of Gilgamesh?"
Before Shakespeare, this 14th century Italian poet is credited with first popularizing the sonnet.
Who is Petrarch?
This form is collaged entirely from other authors’ verses or passages. Its name comes from the Italian word for "hundred."
What is a cento?
This poem is featured heavily in the movie Interstellar, returning, fittingly, as a frequent refrain.
"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas
"Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
What is, "The Second Coming?"
This 17th century Japanese poet is credited with mastering haiku and skyrocketing it to a globally recognized form.
Who is Matsuo Basho?
This poet was the first to be given the title of "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress" in 1986.
Who is Robert Penn Warren?
This poetic form of quatrains is characterized by a repetition of the 2nd and 4th lines of a stanza in the 1st and 3rd lines of the following stanza. The form was taken and appropriated by French colonists from the Malay people.
What is a pantoum?
This famous poet only titled and published 10 poems of 1,800 written during her lifetime. The rest were found untitled in her desk and storage chest after her death.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
"Till human voices wake us, and we drown."
What is "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?"
This 14th century poet is known as the "Father of English Literature" because he wrote his poetry during a time when English was considered too vulgar for literary works.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
This woman, born in 1753, was the first African American to publish a book of poetry, which she did while enslaved.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
This form, created by Terrance Hayes, borrows a line from an existing poem and uses each word from that line as the last word of each line in a new poem.
What is a golden shovel?
Launched by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, this month is celebrated as “National Poetry Month.”
What is April?
"chickens"
What is, "The Red Wheelbarrow?"
Written between the 7th and 4th centuries BC, this poem is one of two primary epics in Hinduism, the other being the Mahabharata.
What is the Ramayana?
The Yale Series of Younger Poets, the oldest poetry competition in the US, is characterized by this limitation.
What is a lack of a previously published book (it must be the first)?
The form of this poem fragment:
"O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing."
What is a ballad?
The poet that wrote this:
" If I told him would he like it. Would he like it if I told him.
Would he like it would Napoleon would Napoleon would would he like it."