Edward King, a minor poet and a contemporary of Milton’s at Cambridge, was drowned at sea in 1637. Milton wrote an elegy for him. What was the title of this poem ?

Related Mcqs:

1. This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes ?

   A. Alexander Pope
   B. William Collins
   C. Thomas Gray
   D. Ben Jonson

2. The ode on which topic that Coleridge wrote while attending Jesus College, Cambridge won him the Browne Gold Medal ?

   A. On the slave trade
   B. On romantic philosophy
   C. On the creativity of human mind
   D. On supernatural elements in poetry

3. Milton continued his studies at Cambridge. Which college of the university did he attend ?

   A. Pembroke College
   B. Trinity College
   C. Christ’s College
   D. St. Xavier’s College

4. Which Poem caused Milton’s stature as a poet to be recognized ?

   A. Paradise Lost
   B. Il Penseroso
   C. Areopagitica
   D. Lycidas

5. When John Milton studied at Christ’s College, Cambridge, his college was a stronghold of what religious faith ?

   A. Anglicism
   B. Puritanism
   C. Buddhism
   D. A and C

6. Which Romantic poet would have believed that a poet needs influence from something external and transformative in order to write a strong poem ?

   A. William Blake
   B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
   C. Lord Byron
   D. Percy Shelley

7. Elizabeth Fey refers to which poet as “a sort of poet-king Arthur” ?

   A. William Wordsworth
   B. William Blake
   C. Lord Byron
   D. Percy Shelley

8. Marlowe’s poem ’The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ begins with the line “Come live with me and be my love”; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line ?

   A. William Shakespeare
   B. Thomas Kyd
   C. John Dryden
   D. John Donne

9. I knew him, however, as both mathematician and poet, and my measures were adapted to his capacity, with reference to the circumstances by which he was surrounded. I knew him as a courtier, too, and as a bold intriguant. Such a man, I considered, could not fail to be aware of the ordinary political modes of action. Who is speaking ?

   A. Brown
   B. Brom Bones
   C. Rip
   D. Dupin

10. H.D.’s poem “Oread” reads: “WHIRL up, sea-/Whirl your pointed pines./Splash your great pines/On our rocks./Hurl your green over us-/Cover us with your pools of fir.” To which of the following categories does this poem belong ?

    A. Objectivist poetry
    B. Futurist poetry
    C. Imagist poetry
    D. Vorticist poetry