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I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
What form is this poem?
This is a sonnet, identifiable by its 14 lines and loose iambic pentameter. This poem, though, lacks the traditional rhyme scheme and octave-sestet structure of most sonnets.
Passage adapted from "Ozymandias," by Percy Bysshe Shelley(1818).
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I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
What is the name of the work by this same poet that elegizes John Keats?
Adonaïs: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. is, as its full title suggests, an 1821 pastoral poem eulogizing the death of the English poet John Keats (by Percy Bysshe Shelley). All the other titles are also works by Shelley. The Revolt of Islam was published in1818_, Prometheus Unbound_ was published in 1820, “The Masque of Anarchy” was published in 1819, and “Music, When Soft Voices Die” was published in 1824.
Passage adapted from "Ozymandias" (1818) by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
"By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?
The bridegroom's doors are opened wide,
And I am next of kin;
The guests are met, the feast is set:
May'st hear the merry din."
Who is the author of this poem?
This is Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s famous seven-part poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798).
William Wordsworth wrote The Prelude (1850), John Keats wrote "O Solitude"(1816), William Cowper wrote The Task (1785), and Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote Ozymandias (1818).
Passage adapted from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798).
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It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
"By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?
The bridegroom's doors are opened wide,
And I am next of kin;
The guests are met, the feast is set:
May'st hear the merry din."
When was this poem first published?
The poem first appeared in 1798 and has been reprinted in many versions since.
Passage adapted from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798).
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It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
"By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?
The bridegroom's doors are opened wide,
And I am next of kin;
The guests are met, the feast is set:
May'st hear the merry din."
This poem heralded the beginning of which new poetic era?
Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner is widely considered one of the first major works of British Romantic poetry. It was included in the first edition of The Lyrical Ballads (1798), which is considered the founding document of English Romanticism as a unified artistic movement.
Passage adapted from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798).
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It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
"By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?
The bridegroom's doors are opened wide,
And I am next of kin;
The guests are met, the feast is set:
May'st hear the merry din."
Which of the following animals plays an infamous role in this poem?
In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, an albatross invested with supernatural powers is responsible for leading a ship’s crew out of an ice floe. When a sailor subsequently shoots the bird, their ship becomes becalmed and the crew resorts to cannibalism.
Passage adapted from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798).
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O, my luve’s like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June:
O, my luve’s like the melodie,
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I:
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
’Till a’ the seas gang dry.
Who is the author of this poem?
This is “A Red, Red Rose,” one of the most famous and enduring poems of the poet Robert Burns (1759-1796). It is technically a song and was based on traditional Scottish music, but it is often reprinted as a poem.
George MacDonald wrote Phantastes: A Faerie Romance (1858), Hamish Henderson wrote Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica (1948), Alasdair Gray wrote Old Negatives (1989), and Iain Banks wrote The Wasp Factory (1984).
Passage adapted from "ARed, Red Rose" (1794) by Robert Burns.
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O, my luve’s like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June:
O, my luve’s like the melodie,
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I:
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
’Till a’ the seas gang dry.
This author is widely regarded as the national poet of which country?
Robert Burns, also known as Robbie or Rabbie Burns, is Scotland’s most famous poet and is widely referred to in that country as just “The Bard.” He is known for his use of the Scots language and Scottish English dialect in his poetry.
Passage adapted from "ARed, Red Rose" (1794) by Robert Burns.
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O, my luve’s like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June:
O, my luve’s like the melodie,
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I:
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
’Till a’ the seas gang dry.
Which of the following is not another work by the author of this poem?
“Clown in the Moon” is a poem by the Welsh author Dylan Thomas. The rest are works by Robbie Burns.
“To a Mouse,” “To a Mountain Daisy,” and “Halloween” were published in Poems Chiefly in a Scottish Dialect (1786)
“Tam o’ Shanter” was published in 1791.
Passage adapted from "ARed, Red Rose" (1794) by Robert Burns.
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O, my luve’s like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June:
O, my luve’s like the melodie,
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I:
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
’Till a’ the seas gang dry.
Which of the following traditional works did the author of this poem successfully preserve?
In addition to writing his own poetry, Robert Burns worked to preserve traditional Scottish poetry and music. “Auld Lang Syne” is one such Scottish song that he was able to popularize and pass into popular culture.
Passage adapted from "ARed, Red Rose" (1794) by Robert Burns.
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I sing the Sofa. I, who lately sang
Truth, Hope, and Charity, and touched with awe
The solemn chords, and with a trembling hand,
Escaped with pain from that advent’rous flight,
Now seek repose upon a humbler theme:
The theme though humble, yet august and proud
The occasion—for the Fair commands the song.
Who is the author of this poem?
This is William Cowper’s epic six-book poem The Task. It was allegedly inspired by a incident in which a lady wagered that he couldn’t compose a poem on any topic – say, for instance, a sofa. Although the poem begins with a parodic discussion of a sofa’s virtues, it quickly digresses into more important topics.
William Wordsworth (co-)wrote The Lyrical Ballads (1798), Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote Biographia Literaria (1817), John Newton wrote "Amazing Grace" (1779), and George Gordon (A.K.A Lord Byron) wrote Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812).
Passage adapted from William Cowper’s The Task and Other Poems (1785).
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I sing the Sofa. I, who lately sang
Truth, Hope, and Charity, and touched with awe
The solemn chords, and with a trembling hand,
Escaped with pain from that advent’rous flight,
Now seek repose upon a humbler theme:
The theme though humble, yet august and proud
The occasion—for the Fair commands the song.
In addition to poetry, this author also wrote which of the following?
For part of his life, William Cowper was an evangelical Christian. Some of his religious fervor took the form of English hymns, many of which are still sung today.
Passage adapted from William Cowper’s The Task and Other Poems (1785).
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I sing the Sofa. I, who lately sang
Truth, Hope, and Charity, and touched with awe
The solemn chords, and with a trembling hand,
Escaped with pain from that advent’rous flight,
Now seek repose upon a humbler theme:
The theme though humble, yet august and proud
The occasion—for the Fair commands the song.
When was this work published?
The Task was first published in 1785. William Cowper lived from 1731 to 1800, which may have helped you narrow down the answer choices.
Passage adapted from William Cowper’s The Task and Other Poems (1785).
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I sing the Sofa. I, who lately sang
Truth, Hope, and Charity, and touched with awe
The solemn chords, and with a trembling hand,
Escaped with pain from that advent’rous flight,
Now seek repose upon a humbler theme:
The theme though humble, yet august and proud
The occasion—for the Fair commands the song.
Which political reform is this poet most closely associated with?
In addition to being an important early Romantic poet, William Cowper was an ardent abolitionist and spoke out openly against slavery in Britain.
Passage adapted from William Cowper’s The Task and Other Poems (1785).
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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Who is the author of this poem?
This is “The Tyger,” one of the best known poems by the English poet William Blake (1757-1827).
William Cowper wrote John Gilpin (1782), John Keats wrote Poems (1816), Christina Rossetti wrote Goblin Market (1862), and Matthew Arnold wrote Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems (1852).
Passage adapted from William Blake’s Songs of Experience (1794).
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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
What collection is this poem taken from?
William Blake wrote both Songs of Experience and Songs of Innocence, but “The Tyger” is from the former collection. (The other titles are invented.)
Passage adapted from William Blake’s Songs of Experience (1794).
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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
When was this poem first published?
The poem was first published in 1794.
Passage adapted from William Blake’s Songs of Experience (1794).
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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Which of the following is not another work by this poet?
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793), The Book of Los (1795), Europe a Prophecy (1794), An Island in the Moon (1785) are all by William Blake. Lamia is an 1820 narrative poem by John Keats.
Passage adapted from William Blake’s Songs of Experience (1794).
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Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
'Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:
Apples and quinces,
Lemons and oranges,
Plump unpecked cherries,
Melons and raspberries…
Who is the author of this poem?
This is "Goblin Market,” a poem by the English author Christina Rossetti (1830-1894). It is a fantastical narrative poem about two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, and the cries they hear from magical goblin merchants. The poem is often read as an elaborate metaphor for loss of sexual innocence, although Rossetti stated that the poem was really intended for children.
William Wordsworth wrote The Excursion (1814), Matthew Arnold wrote Culture and Anarchy (1869), John Keats wrote Poems (1816), and Joanna Baillie wrote Plays on the Passions (1798).
Passage adapted from Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market (1862).
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The sea is calm to-night.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits;—on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!
When was this poem published?
The poem was first published in 1867, although Arnold worked on it for at least ten years before its publication.
Passage adapted from Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” (1867).
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