Famous Poems

Description: Test your knowledge of some of the most famous poems in literature.
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Who wrote the poem "The Raven"?

  1. Edgar Allan Poe

  2. William Shakespeare

  3. Robert Frost

  4. Emily Dickinson


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Edgar Allan Poe wrote the poem "The Raven" in 1845.

What is the name of the speaker in the poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"?

  1. The poet

  2. A cloud

  3. A bird

  4. A flower


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The speaker in the poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" is the poet himself, William Wordsworth.

Which poem begins with the line "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood"?

  1. The Road Not Taken

  2. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

  3. Birches

  4. Mending Wall


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost begins with the line "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood".

Who wrote the poem "Ode to a Nightingale"?

  1. John Keats

  2. Percy Bysshe Shelley

  3. William Wordsworth

  4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

John Keats wrote the poem "Ode to a Nightingale" in 1819.

What is the name of the poem that begins with the line "Once upon a midnight dreary"?

  1. The Raven

  2. The Tell-Tale Heart

  3. The Cask of Amontillado

  4. The Fall of the House of Usher


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe begins with the line "Once upon a midnight dreary".

Which poem contains the line "The world is too much with us"?

  1. The World Is Too Much with Us

  2. Ode: Intimations of Immortality

  3. Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

  4. Ode to a Nightingale


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The poem "The World Is Too Much with Us" by William Wordsworth contains the line "The world is too much with us".

Who wrote the poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"?

  1. Dylan Thomas

  2. T.S. Eliot

  3. W.H. Auden

  4. Philip Larkin


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Dylan Thomas wrote the poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" in 1951.

What is the name of the poem that begins with the line "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"?

  1. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

  2. Birches

  3. Mending Wall

  4. The Road Not Taken


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost begins with the line "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".

Which poem contains the line "The world is too much with us"?

  1. The World Is Too Much with Us

  2. Ode: Intimations of Immortality

  3. Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

  4. Ode to a Nightingale


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The poem "The World Is Too Much with Us" by William Wordsworth contains the line "The world is too much with us".

Who wrote the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?

  1. T.S. Eliot

  2. Ezra Pound

  3. William Carlos Williams

  4. Wallace Stevens


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

T.S. Eliot wrote the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" in 1915.

What is the name of the poem that begins with the line "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be"?

  1. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be

  2. Ode: Intimations of Immortality

  3. Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

  4. Ode to a Nightingale


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The poem "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be" by John Keats begins with the line "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be".

Which poem contains the line "The world is too much with us"?

  1. The World Is Too Much with Us

  2. Ode: Intimations of Immortality

  3. Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

  4. Ode to a Nightingale


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The poem "The World Is Too Much with Us" by William Wordsworth contains the line "The world is too much with us".

Who wrote the poem "The Waste Land"?

  1. T.S. Eliot

  2. Ezra Pound

  3. William Carlos Williams

  4. Wallace Stevens


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

T.S. Eliot wrote the poem "The Waste Land" in 1922.

What is the name of the poem that begins with the line "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"?

  1. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

  2. And Death Shall Have No Dominion

  3. Poem in October

  4. Fern Hill


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas begins with the line "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night".

Which poem contains the line "The world is too much with us"?

  1. The World Is Too Much with Us

  2. Ode: Intimations of Immortality

  3. Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

  4. Ode to a Nightingale


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The poem "The World Is Too Much with Us" by William Wordsworth contains the line "The world is too much with us".

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