Poetry Quiz: Famous Poems and Poets of the 1800s

Which poem features a mysterious bird repeating the word “Nevermore”?

• “The Tyger”

• “The Raven”

• “Ode to a Nightingale”

• “The Lamb”

Who wrote “Eldorado”?

• Walt Whitman

• John Keats

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Alfred Lord Tennyson

In “Annabel Lee,” where is the speaker’s lost love associated with?

• A city in the mountains

• A kingdom by the sea

• A battlefield in Europe

• A forest full of birds

Which poem is best described as an allegorical quest for an impossible ideal?

• “Eldorado”

• “London”

• “The Lamb”

• “I Hear America Singing”

Which Poe poem presents human life as a tragic play ending in death?

• “A Dream Within a Dream”

• “The Conqueror Worm”

• “To Helen”

• “Annabel Lee”

Why is “The Conqueror Worm” connected to Poe’s story “Ligeia”?

• It was written by the character Ligeia inside the story.

• It appears inside the story “Ligeia.”

• It is about a woman named Ligeia.

• It was published as a sequel to “Ligeia.”

Which poem asks whether life and love may be only illusions?

• “The Charge of the Light Brigade”

• “Sonnet 43”

• “O Captain! My Captain!”

• “A Dream Within a Dream”

“To Helen” by Poe uses many references from which tradition?

• Norse mythology

• American Civil War history

• Medieval Arthurian legend

• Greek and Roman classical culture

Which Tennyson poem is a dramatic monologue spoken by an aging hero who still wants adventure?

• “Ulysses”

• “In Memoriam A.H.H.”

• “The Charge of the Light Brigade”

• “The Passing of Arthur”

The line “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” comes from which poem?

• “Ulysses”

• “The Raven”

• “O Me! O Life!”

• “Ode on a Grecian Urn”