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Victorian Poetry Trivia

Victorian Poetry Trivia. Who wrote each of the following?. “Ulysses” “My Last Duchess” “Porphyria’s Lover” “Dover Beach” “Spring and Fall to a young child” “”Convergence of the Twain” “When I was One-and-Twenty” “To an Athlete Dying Young” “The Man He Killed”. 2.

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Victorian Poetry Trivia

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  1. Victorian Poetry Trivia

  2. Who wrote each of the following? • “Ulysses” • “My Last Duchess” • “Porphyria’s Lover” • “Dover Beach” • “Spring and Fall to a young child” • “”Convergence of the Twain” • “When I was One-and-Twenty” • “To an Athlete Dying Young” • “The Man He Killed”

  3. 2 • What poems are dramatic monologues?

  4. 3 • We studied this poem in connection with the “Seafarer.”

  5. 4 • This poem concerns the clash between the Imminent Will and the Pride of Life.

  6. 5 • He developed sprung rhythm.

  7. 7 • What is a feminine rhyme?

  8. 8 • These two poems involve a murder.

  9. 9 • This poem concerns the punishment for original sin.

  10. 10 • “Spring and Fall” is addressed to whom?

  11. 11 • Who is the audience of “My Last Duchess”?

  12. 12 • This poem has an irregular rhyme scheme but every line rhymes with another somewhere in the poem.

  13. 13 • This poet was a Jesuit priest.

  14. 14 • These two poems concern works of art.

  15. 15 • What is the figure of speech in this line: • “No pain felt she; • I am quite sure she felt no pain, • As a shut bud that holds a bee, • I warily oped her lids. ‘

  16. 16 • This poem is a satire.

  17. 17 • Name the syntactical pattern of the following: • “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

  18. 18 • This poem criticizes patriarchal aristocratic power.

  19. 19 • This poem depicts the need to live life to the fullest to the very end.

  20. 20 • This poem shows that the only way to preserve a moment is to kill.

  21. 21 • This poem reveals the disillusionment resulting from a loss of faith.

  22. 22 • This poem criticizes (while seeming to praise) conformity.

  23. 23 • That moment she was mine, mine, fair • Perfectly pure and good: I found • A thing to do.

  24. 24 • This grew; I gave commands • Then all smiles topped together.

  25. 25 • I am part of all that I have met

  26. 27 • Was he free? Was he happy?

  27. 28 • Yes, quaint and curious war is!

  28. 29 • About suffering they were never wrong, • The Old Masters

  29. 30 • This poem is a villanelle.

  30. 31 • What is “Adam’s Curse”?

  31. 32 • Who wrote each of the following: • “The Hollow Men” • “The Second Coming” • “Adam’s Curse” • “Dulce et Decorum Est” • “To an Athlete Dying Young” • “The Unknown Citizen”

  32. 32 • Who was the musician who went unappreciated in the European subway station?

  33. 33 • Translate: • “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”

  34. 35 • Name two anti-war poems.

  35. 35 • Complete the following line: • Here we go round the ………. • At five o’clock in the morning.

  36. 36 • Name three patterns of images in “The Hollow Men.”

  37. 37 • This poem is an apocalyptic poem.

  38. 39 • What is dying by poison gas compared to in “Dulce Et Decorum Est”?

  39. 39 • Whom is the speaker addressing in “Do Not go Gentle into that Good Night”?

  40. 40 • Name 3 areas that demand work according to the speaker in “Adam’s Curse.”

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