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Poetry by Wikipedia description - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 10 times
- The average score is 8 of 15
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| The poem was the result of a friendly competition between Shelley and fellow poet Horace Smith, using the subject of Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, [title] being the Greek name for the pharaoh. | Ozymandias | 90%
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| Colin Pedley and others have suggested that Blake may have been influenced in selecting the subject of this poem by the killing of a son of Sir Hector Munro by a tiger in December 1792. | The Tyger | 90%
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| [poem] is considered one of the greatest nonsense poems written in English. Its playful, whimsical language has given English nonsense words and neologisms such as "galumphing" and "chortle". | Jabberwocky | 80%
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| Its publication made Poe popular in his lifetime, although it did not bring him much financial success. | The Raven | 80%
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| [poem] is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. | The Waste Land | 80%
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| [poem] is an English unfinished satirical epic poem written by Lord Byron between 1819 and 1824 that portrays the Spanish folk legend of [eponymous character], not as a womaniser as historically portrayed, but as a victim easily seduced by women. | Don Juan | 70%
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| [poem] is an extended metaphor poem written by Walt Whitman in 1865 about the death of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln. | O Captain! My Captain! | 50%
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| Thomas and Frost became close friends and took many walks together. One day, as they were walking together, they came across two roads. Thomas was indecisive about which road to take, and in retrospect often lamented that they should have taken the other one. | The Road Not Taken | 50%
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| Only 16 words long, [title] is one of Williams' most frequently anthologized poems, and a prime example of early twentieth-century Imagism. | The Red Wheelbarrow | 40%
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| Dickinson's tone contributes to the poem as well. In describing a traditionally frightening experience, the process of dying and passing into eternity, she uses a passive and calm tone. | Because I could not stop for Death | 30%
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| The poem's central question has been described as "one of American poetry’s most famous questions". Scott Challener considers Hughes's questions to be "urgent, embodied questions" that presents imagery of neglect while "provoking the senses". | Harlem | 30%
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| Plath describes the speaker's oppression with the use of allusions and images invoking World War II–era Nazi Germany. It is known as one of her "Holocaust poems", along with "Daddy" and "Mary's Song". | Lady Lazarus | 30%
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| In an interview Brooks stated that her inspiration for the poem came from her walking in her community and passing a pool hall full of boys. When considering this she thought to herself “I wonder how they feel about themselves?” | We Real Cool | 20%
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| The poem uses Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse and [title] to describe allegorically the atmosphere of post-war Europe. | The Second Coming | 10%
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| The prose poem is a to-do list and a how-to-do list containing one sentence of a 650 word dialogue. It features what the girl hears from her (implied) mother. | Girl | 0%
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