Poet
Context
Quotation
Literary Device
Miscellaneous
100

Friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and co-author of the Lyrical Ballads. He wrote the poem 'She was a Phantom of Delight'.

William Wordsworth

100

The title of this poem by Sam Hunt refers to Mary's suffering.

Stabat Mater

100

"You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat"

Love (III)

100

Suburbs slide past his unseeing eyes

oxymoron

100

A poem that is constructed around an opposition, meant to show two different approaches to love.

The Clod and the Pebble

200

English romantic poet and printmaker. He wrote the poem 'The Clod and the Pebble'.

William Blake

200

This poem reflects on the isolation and loss of identity that come with the constraints of motherhood.

In the Park

200

"The softest moss should dress thy bed / With savage spoils about thee spread"

Winter Song

200

Name all the sound effects in these lines (4):

"So soft that a mother that's nigh / Her still cradle, may hear her babe sigh"

Sibilance

Onomatopoeia

Assonance

Consonance

200

What historical events prompted Muriel Rukeyser to write the poem Who in One Lifetime?

WWI and WWII

300

He is the author of Description of Spring.

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

300

The poem Blessing explores the importance of water and is set in this Indian city.

Mumbai

300

the ambitious mother across the road

is at it again

an afternoon nap

300

"Who will not alter, who will not grow"

parallellism

300

Thomas Carew's speaker's heartache gets even worse in this season.

The Spring

400

Oxford Professor of Poetry. She wrote Eel Tail.

Alice Oswald

400

This poem reflects the emotional restraint that was expected of women in Victorian times.

Renouncement

400

Can we not help her? Oh, no!

The Hour is Come

400

 but in the cooler shade,

Amyntas now doth with his Chloris sleep

Allusion

400

So far we have read 18 poems. How many have been written by men and how many by women?

9 / 9

500

Feminist writer and publisher, and an important figure in the Australian suffragette movement. She also wrote The Hour is Come.

Louisa Lawson

500

Surplus Value reflects on the complex history and the rise and fall of the car industry in this city.

Detroit

500

"Home again, I see him drinking weak tea,

Eating a stale chapati, reading a book"

Father Returning Home

500

"The land's sharp features seemed to be / The Century's corpse outleant"

metaphor

500

Which of the following poets have we NOT yet read?

Raine - Yap - Blake - Arnold - Carew

Matthew Arnold