Thanks to all who played this morning's POETRY TRIVIA. Today's winner was Julia Ruengert from the English/Communication Department. Guess those folks do have an advantage!

The answers were:
Monday: POETRY TRIVIA

1. Which reclusive poet penned this:

"Because I could not stop for Death—He kindly stopped for me—The Carriage held but just Ourselves—And Immortality"
c. Emily Dickinson

2. What did Yeats intend to plant on Innisfree?
a. beans

3. Who wrote the following lines about a snowy evening?
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep,"
b. Robert Frost

4. Tennyson always insisted that this poem be the last poem printed in any anthology of his work.
b. Crossing the Bar

5. This farm was where Dylan Thomas spent much of his childhood.
d. Fern Hill

6. Complete the following line from an e.e. cummings’ poem: Spring is like a
b. a perhaps hand

7. In “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” this friendly animal is senselessly killed.
c. An albatross

8. Which Harlem Renaissance poet asked:

"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry uplike a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore—"
d. Langston Hughes

9. This poet was blind.
b. Homer

10. John Newton wrote:
“Amazing grace!
How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now I’m found.
Was blind, but now I see.”

What was Newton’s profession before he became a minister?
c. slave ship captain


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