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

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

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

   A. Ben Jonson
   B. Alexander Pope
   C. Robert Herrick
   D. John Dryden

3. 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

4. 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

5. In 1960 ’The Colossus’ was the first book of poems published by which poetess ?

   A. Elizabeth Bishop
   B. Sylvia Plath
   C. Marianne Moore
   D. Laura Jackson

6. Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature ?

   A. William Blake
   B. William Shakespeare
   C. William Morris
   D. William Wordsworth

7. John Milton’s “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso” are companion poems and are both written in ?

   A. iambic pentameter
   B. tetrameter couplets
   C. heroic couplets
   D. Shakespearean sonnets

8. Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?

   A. Work Without Hope
   B. Frost at Midnight
   C. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
   D. Youth and Age

9. Which of the following poems describe or celebrate an apocalyptic regeneration of humanity and the world effected by the creative capacity of the human mind ?

   A. Coleridge’s Dejection: An Ode
   B. Blake’s “Prophetic Books”
   C. Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman
   D. all but C

10. Which of the following statements best characterizes American World War II poems ?

    A. They tend to use traditional rhyme schemes and rhythms, and they avoid free verse.
    B. They tend to use metaphors and avoid direct descriptive statements.
    C. They tend to use classical imagery while rejecting romantic tropes.
    D. They tend to be narrative and confront the reader with stark wartime realities.