Love Letters in Poetry

Description: Love Letters in Poetry Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of Poetic Expressions of Love
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Which famous love letter poem begins with the line, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."?

  1. Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  2. Love Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare

  3. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne

  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a renowned love letter poem that expresses the speaker's deep and passionate love for their beloved.

In which poem does the speaker compare their love to a "red, red rose"?

  1. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne

  2. Love Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

  3. A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns

  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns is a love poem that uses the metaphor of a red rose to symbolize the speaker's enduring love for their beloved.

Which love letter poem contains the line, "If I can ever learn well enough, If thinking, feeling, desiring, If blood, skin, nerve, if all of life is not Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope"?

  1. Sonnet 18 by Pablo Neruda

  2. Love Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

  3. I Carry Your Heart with Me(I Carry It in My Heart) by E.E. Cummings

  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Sonnet 18 by Pablo Neruda is a love poem that explores the speaker's intense desire and longing for their beloved.

In which poem does the speaker write, "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace."?

  1. How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  2. Love Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

  3. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne

  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a love poem that expresses the speaker's boundless and immeasurable love for their beloved.

Which love letter poem begins with the line, "Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments."?

  1. Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

  2. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne

  3. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats

  4. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare is a love poem that celebrates the enduring and unconditional nature of true love.

In which poem does the speaker compare their love to a "nightingale's song"?

  1. Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats

  2. Love Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare

  3. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne

  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats is a love poem that uses the metaphor of a nightingale's song to symbolize the speaker's intense and passionate love for their beloved.

Which love letter poem contains the line, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun."?

  1. Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare

  2. Love Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

  3. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne

  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare is a love poem that playfully compares the speaker's beloved to various natural beauties, ultimately asserting that their love is unique and incomparable.

In which poem does the speaker write, "I love you not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you."?

  1. Love Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

  2. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne

  3. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats

  4. I Carry Your Heart with Me(I Carry It in My Heart) by E.E. Cummings


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

I Carry Your Heart with Me(I Carry It in My Heart) by E.E. Cummings is a love poem that expresses the speaker's deep and abiding love for their beloved.

Which love letter poem begins with the line, "If I should ever by chance grow bold enough To make a ship and go sailing"?

  1. Sea Fever by John Masefield

  2. Love Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare

  3. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne

  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Sea Fever by John Masefield is a love poem that expresses the speaker's longing for adventure and the sea, while also conveying their love for their beloved.

In which poem does the speaker compare their love to a "star, to stay, Always in my breast"?

  1. Love Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

  2. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne

  3. Bright Star by John Keats

  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Bright Star by John Keats is a love poem that compares the speaker's beloved to a star, symbolizing their enduring and unwavering love.

Which love letter poem contains the line, "Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove"?

  1. Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

  2. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne

  3. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats

  4. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare is a love poem that celebrates the enduring and unconditional nature of true love.

In which poem does the speaker write, "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace."?

  1. How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  2. Love Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

  3. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne

  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a love poem that expresses the speaker's boundless and immeasurable love for their beloved.

Which love letter poem begins with the line, "If I can ever learn well enough, If thinking, feeling, desiring, If blood, skin, nerve, if all of life is not Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope"?

  1. Sonnet 18 by Pablo Neruda

  2. Love Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

  3. I Carry Your Heart with Me(I Carry It in My Heart) by E.E. Cummings

  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Sonnet 18 by Pablo Neruda is a love poem that explores the speaker's intense desire and longing for their beloved.

In which poem does the speaker compare their love to a "nightingale's song"?

  1. Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats

  2. Love Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare

  3. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne

  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats is a love poem that uses the metaphor of a nightingale's song to symbolize the speaker's intense and passionate love for their beloved.

Which love letter poem contains the line, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun."?

  1. Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare

  2. Love Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

  3. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne

  4. When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare is a love poem that playfully compares the speaker's beloved to various natural beauties, ultimately asserting that their love is unique and incomparable.

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