A. Thomas gray
B. Alexander Pope
C. Edward gibbon
D. William Blake
Related Mcqs:
- ‘Sweet are the uses of adversity’ was stated by__________________?
A. Valtaire
B. Shakespeare
C. Milton
D. Tolstoy - Shelley’s “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” suggests that _________________?
A. Beauty can be understood only through metaphysics
B. Anything that is intellectual cannot be beautiful
C. Beauty is missing from the world
D. The source of beauty cannot be known, and that beauty can only be felt - Why is Caedmon’s Hymn important in the history of Old English literature ?
A. The poem could be easily sung in all churches and was widely accepted.
B. The poem’s theme of alienation becomes familiar to Anglo-Saxon poetry.
C. The poem illustrates Caedmon’s erudition and scholarship.
D. The poem is widely believed to be the first written poem in Old English. - In Caedmon’s Hymn, the poet borrows the language of which literary form ?
A. The mock epic
B. The lyric ballad
C. The lai
D. The heroic epic - ‘Written in March’ is a poem composed by_______________?
A. William Wordsworth
B. William Congreve
C. William Blake
D. William Shakespeare - The poem ‘The Patriot’ is written by_______________?
A. Alfred Tennyson
B. Robert Browning
C. Mathew Arnold
D. John Donne - ‘Lucy Gray’ is a poem written by_______________?
A. Wordsworth
B. Keats
C. None of these
D. All of these - 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 - What are some of the surface similarities between Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out” and John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Telling the Bees” ?
A. They both address the theme of death.
B. Both use formal meter to present a narrative structure.
C. They are both set in rural New England.
D. All of these answers - In Amy Lowell’s imagist poem, “This Green Bowl,” a handmade bowl is compared to a pond in the woods. Can one say that, as in Pound’s “Cantos,” this poem’s dominant tone is impersonal? Why, or why not ?
A. Yes, Lowell’s detailed description of nature draws attention away from human realities.
B. Yes, the lyrical voice in Lowell’s poem seeks to express universal rather than individual experience.
C. No, Lowell’s poem is not impersonal; it addresses the maker of the bowl directly and speculates about his state of mind.
D. No, even though Lowell strives for impersonal expression by borrowing poetic devices from Pound, she fails to accomplish this
