International Poetry

Which poet would complete the set: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine.

• Hugo

• Lamartine

• Mallarmé

• Breton

He is most known for his prose-poetry fables in "the Prophet."

• Mutran

• Adunis

• Voltaire

• Gibran

The communist forces killed Poet García Lorca in Spain at the beginning of the Civil War.

• True

• False

Sylvia Plath was married to Poet ______________________.

• Langston Hughes

• Ted Hughes

Pablo Neruda and Garcia Lorca advocated socialist/ left-wing perspectives and thought.

• true

• false

Which of the following poets belong to the surrealist school?

• Tristan Tzara

• Thomas Hardy

• André Breton

• Guillaume Apollinaire

Who wrote this poem?

"I'm a riddle in nine syllables,

An elephant, a ponderous house,

A melon strolling on two tendrils.

O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!

This loaf's big with its yeasty rising.

Money's new-minted in this fat purse.

I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf.

I've eaten a bag of green apples,

Boarded the train, there's no getting off."

• Walt Whitman

• W. H. Auden

• Sylvia Plath

• Emily Dickinson

Which of the following can be a typical rhyme scheme of the Petrarchan sonnet?

• _{ABBAABBA CDCDCD}

• ^{ABBAABBA CDECDE}

• _{ABAB CDCD EFEF GG}

In early Islamic traditions, poetry was linked to religious context exclusively because the Quran accuses the poets of being lost and liars.

• true

• false

American Poet William Carlos Williams was also ____________.

• a medical doctor

• a playwright

• a painter

• a novelist