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Trivia Quiz: Poetry First Lines

How well do you know your poetry? Below are the first lines of ten poems, some of which are featured in our Book Club. Can you figure out which author wrote each opening line?


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Question 1: "I sing of arms and the man ..."

 A: Virgil
 B: Homer
 C: Aristophanes
 D: Plautus

Question 2: "It is an ancient mariner, and he stoppeth one of three ..."

 A: Oscar Wilde
 B: John Keats
 C: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 D: William Wordsworth

Question 3: "Whose woods these are I think I know ..."

 A: Robert Burns
 B: Robert Frost
 C: Walt Whitman
 D: Ernest Hemingway

Question 4: "Half a league, half a league, half a league onward ..."

 A: Alfred Lord Tennyson
 B: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 C: John Keats
 D: Percy Bysshe Shelley

Question 5: "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree ..."

 A: Homer
 B: Thomas Hardy
 C: Sylvia Plath
 D: John Milton

Question 6: "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow ..."

 A: William Shakespeare
 B: Walt Whitman
 C: William Blake
 D: Oscar Wilde

Question 7: "Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright ..."

 A: John Keats
 B: William Wordsworth
 C: William Blake
 D: John Donne

Question 8: "I met a traveller from an ancient land who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone ..."

 A: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 B: Percy Bysshe Shelley
 C: William Shakespeare
 D: Christopher Marlowe

Question 9: "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ..."

 A: William Wordsworth
 B: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 C: Alfred Lord Tennyson
 D: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Question 10: "O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done ..."

 A: Ernest Hemingway
 B: Walt Whitman
 C: Alfred Lord Tennyson
 D: Percy Bysshe Shelley



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