Which American poet is hailed as the representative poet of America ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and loss’ ?

   A. Tennyson
   B. Browning
   C. Swinburne
   D. D.G. Rossetti

2. Of which poet was it said ’Even if he’s not a great poet, he’s certainly a great something’ ?

   A. Elliot
   B. Kipling
   C. Cummings
   D. Brooke

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819 ?

   A. Emily Dickinson
   B. Paul Dunbar
   C. John Greenleaf Whittier
   D. Walt Whitman

8. Who was American poet ?

   A. Robert Frost
   B. John Keats
   C. John Milton
   D. Robert Herrick

9. In Nikki Giovanni’s “The American Vision of Lincoln,” the poet argues that the Capitol needs a statue of _____________next to the one of Abraham Lincoln?

   A. W.E.B. DuBois
   B. Amiri Baraka
   C. Booker T. Washington
   D. Frederick Douglass

10. The American Renaissance overlapped the time period, in which American writers were trying to____________?

    A. Postmodern; end slavery.
    B. Colonial; end patriotism for England.
    C. Modernism; end individualism.
    D. Romanticism; define themselves and their writing style as independent from England.