He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their time ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Generally speaking, African-American themes were very rare in white modernist poetry. Which of the following white poets attempted to evoke elements of black experience in his or her poems ?

   A. H.D.
   B. Hart Crane
   C. William Carlos Williams
   D. T.S. Eliot

2. In the Middle Ages, how did religious and secular concepts of virginity differ ?

   A. secular authorities said that virginity was unimportant, while the Church highly valued it
   B. the Church said that virginity was unimportant, while the secular authorities highly valued it
   C. secular authorities said that virginity was an ethereal treasure, while religious doctrines said it was spendable
   D. religious doctrines said that virginity was an ethereal treasure, while secular authorities said it was spendable

3. The 20th century has been less kind to his memory. TS Eliot found his imagery distracting, and considered his work “not serious poetry”, but it was another critic who accused him of “callousness to the intrinsic nature of English”. Who ?

   A. FR Leavis
   B. Harold Bloom
   C. William Empson
   D. Mariella Frostrup

4. Who wrote the poems, “On death” and “Women, Wine, and Snuff ?”

   A. John Milton
   B. John Keats
   C. P.B Shelley
   D. William Wordsworth

5. Who wrote the collection of poems entitled “The Wind Among the Reeds ?”

   A. W.B. Yeats
   B. Jorge Luis Borges
   C. Mario Vargas Llosa
   D. Charles Baudelaire

6. Who wrote one of the most famous African American poems that begins with “what happens to a dream deferred” ?

   A. Alice Walker
   B. Etheridge Knight
   C. Martin Luther King, Jr.
   D. Langston Hughes

7. John Donne is, in some sense, the originator of metaphysical poetry. But who is most closely associated with the “founding” of neoclassical poetry ?

   A. William Wordsworth
   B. Alexander Pope
   C. Ben Jonson
   D. George Herbert

8. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?

   A. William Blake
   B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
   C. Samuel Johnson
   D. William Wordsworth

9. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?

   A. Boer War
   B. Second World War
   C. Korean War
   D. First World War

10. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?

    A. William Blake
    B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
    C. Samuel Johnson
    D. William Wordsworth