Tag Archive for ‘Poetry’
Don’t Know Much About® Poetic Last Lines
It’s the final week of National Poetry Month. So fittingly, here’s a Pop Quiz on some notable closing lines of poems. “Nevermore!” It might be difficult to end a poem on a more dramatic note than Edgar Allen Poe did in “The Raven.” Can you name the poets who created these ending lines? Bonus [...]
Poetry Pop Quiz #2
In honor of National Poetry Month in April, I posted a quiz on poetic first lines earlier this month. Here is another. (If you’ve been following my Poem of the Day posts all month on my Facebook page or on Twitter, you should recognize several of these. All are worth reading. Or rereading!) “Gather ye [...]
Don’t Know Much About® Poetic First Lines
“April,” as T.S. Eliot told us, “is the cruellest month.” It is also National Poetry Month. That idea was inaugurated in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets. So to test your poetic wits, a quick Pop Quiz on some famous first poetic lines… Then go read the whole poems. “Let us go then, you [...]
Happy “Frost Day”
“I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.” How about a national holiday today, celebrating poetry, in honor of Robert Frost –born March 26, 1874. Apples, birches, hayfields and stone walls; simple features like these make up the landscape of four-time Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Frost’s poetry. Known as a poet of New England, Frost [...]
