Test Your Poetry Knowledge

Put your poetry knowledge to the test with this quiz containing 12 questions on various poets and their works.

published on April 12
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Who wrote the famous poem 'The Raven'?

Emily Dickinson
Robert Frost
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman
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Which poet is known for writing 'Leaves of Grass'?

Sylvia Plath
Langston Hughes
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
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Who wrote the poem 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'?

John Keats
William Wordsworth
William Blake
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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What is the famous poem by Robert Frost about taking the road less traveled?

What is the famous poem by Robert Frost about taking the road less traveled?
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The Road Not Taken
Fire and Ice
Mending Wall
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Who is the author of 'The Waste Land', a well-known modernist poem?

Robert Frost
T.S. Eliot
Kahlil Gibran
Ezra Pound
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Which poet wrote 'Howl', a poem that became a famous symbol of the Beat Generation?

Sylvia Plath
Allen Ginsberg
Jack Kerouac
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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What is the famous opening line of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
Life's ironies are never-ending
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Which poet wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'?

Which poet wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'?
Langston Hughes
T.S. Eliot
John Keats
Ezra Pound
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Who penned the rhyming couplet 'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'?

Who penned the rhyming couplet 'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sara Teasdale
Emily Dickinson
Christina Rossetti
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'Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me' is a line from which poem?

'Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me' is a line from which poem?
Emily Dickinson's 'Because I could not stop for Death'
Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken'
Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself'
Langston Hughes' 'Harlem'
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Who wrote 'A Dream Deferred'?

Who wrote 'A Dream Deferred'?
Maya Angelou
Langston Hughes
Gwendolyn Brooks
Rita Dove
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Which poet is known for her deep and introspective works like 'Lady Lazarus'?

Sylvia Plath
Anne Sexton
Adrienne Rich
Margaret Atwood