Poetry Trivia/knowledge

[daughter]

How many can you answer? Please quote the question with your answers. Have fun.

#1 Who wrote the famous poem, The Bean Eaters?

#2 The master poet, Shakespeare is famous for what poetry form?

#3 What does ONOMATOPOEIA mean?

#4 What is a CINQUAIN?

#5 William Blake(1757-1827), John Keats(1795-1821), Lord Bryon(1788-1824), what poetry movement do these poets belong to?

#6 Who is our current Poet Laureate?

#7 This poet was born February 9, 1944. Who is it?

#8 Name 3 Beat Poets?

#9 Who wrote, IN A STATION OF THE METRO ?

#10 In the movie Il Postino what famous poet befriends the postman?

 

[Ded Poet]

1. Remembering, with twinklings and twinges,G.B

2. the sonnet

3. splash clang whisper smack bop ding boom!

4. a five-line stanza--particularly a verse form inspired by the japanese tanka, the first and fifth lines having two syllables, and four, six and eight in the intervening three lines. also i think with an iambic meter...

5. hopelessly romantic...lol

6. I listen to myself saying it,
then I say it without listening,
then I hear it without saying it.

8. furlinghetticorsoginsberg

9. IN A STATION OF THE METRO
That is to say, my experience in Paris should have gone into paint ...

10.
Inclinado en las tardes tiro mis tristes redes
a tus ojos oceanos.

 

[daughter]

Thanks for some correct answers

Ded--

Thanks, I'm highlighting your correct answers. It's a little easier to follow if you provide the original question like I asked.

And yes, I can see you know the others but would you mind being explicit for those of us scratching our heads?

Thanks for getting us started.

#2 The master poet, Shakespeare is famous for what poetry form?

The Sonnet

4.What is a CINQUAIN?

a five line stanza--particularly a verse form inspired by the japanese tanka, the first and fifth lines having two syllables, and four, six and eight in the intervening three lines. also i think with an iambic meter...

#5 William Blake(1757-1827), John Keats(1795-1821), Lord Bryon(1788-1824), what poetry movement do these poets belong to?

hopelessly romantic...lol (The Romantics)

#8 Name 3 Beat Poets?

8. Furlinghetti Corso Ginsberg

Peace,

daughter

 

[Ded Poet]

merde

okay, sorry for being oblique...

#1. Who wrote the famous poem, The Bean Eaters?
Gwendolyn Brooks


#3. what does onomotopoeia mean?
A word that is immitative of the sound or action it describes.


#6 Who is our current Poet Laureate?
Billy Collins

#9 Who wrote, IN A STATION OF THE METRO ?
Ezra Pound.


#10 In the movie Il Postino what famous poet befriends the postman?
Pablo, Pablo Neruda.

can i have a cookie now?
oh yeah, #7 stumped me...

 

[daughter]

You may have 2 cookies

Dammit, DP!

Did you have to answer so many? LOL

I will not tell you #7 and now I must scrounge for more tidbits to tease our peers.

Thanks.

Peace,

daughter

 

[daughter]

Number #11-16

#11 In 1850, this poet was appointed by Queen Victoria as poet laureate of England.

#12 “A phrase or line, generally pertinent to the central topic, which is repeated verbatim, usually at regular intervals throughout a poem, most often at the end of a stanza.” What is the technical term?

#13 This poem first appeared in the New Yorker in 1963 and then the posthumously published collection Crossing the Water: Transitional Poems(1971). Name the poet and this celebrated work.

#14 Nia Long recites a poem written by this poet in the movie Love Jones

#15 Who wrote The Raven?

#16 In 1946, this Harlem Renaissance poet died. Who was he?

*****************Still not answered

#7 This poet was born February 9, 1944. Who is it?

#8 Name 3(more) Beat Poets?

 

[TheDR4KE]

Re: Numbers #11-16

#11 In 1850, this poet was appointed by Queen Victoria as poet laureate of England.


Tennison


#12 “A phrase or line, generally pertinent to the central topic, which is repeated verbatim, usually at regular intervals throughout a poem, most often at the end of a stanza.” What is the technical term?


Interestingly I was just reading about the villanelle form yesterday, before I saw RED's go at it -- and of course given your reply to his post it's clear where this question came from Refrain


#13 This poem first appeared in the New Yorker in 1963 and then the posthumously published collection Crossing the Water: Transitional Poems(1971). Name the poet and this celebrated work.


One of my favs: Sylvia Plath. The poem you mean would be "Crossing the Water" I guess?


#14 Nia Long recites a poem written by this poet in the movie Love Jones


Sonia Sanchez


#15 Who wrote The Raven?


Edgar Allen Poe


#16 In 1946, this Harlem Renaissance poet died. Who was he?


I looked this one up, because I love learning about new poets and I liked the previous black writer you pointed out in the haiku thread. Countee Cullen, and I'm so glad that time have changed that we would not get a new black poet writing "Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black and bid him sing!" (from "Yet Do I Marvel", 1924).


#7 This poet was born February 9, 1944. Who is it?


As above re why I looked it up. Alice Walker who wrote "The Color Purple". I can see your influences, D.


#8 Name 3(more) Beat Poets?


This one's just going to keep going, isn't it ;-)

Keaourac springs to mind as as famous as Ginsberg. Then of course there is Lawrence Ferlinghetti of San Fran City Lights bookshop fame. (Love that shop.) Hmm ... that's all I can think of off the top of my head right now. Not a huge beat poetry fan, myself.

Drake (who should probably write some question now

 

[TheDR4KE]

yet more questions

#17 What is the difference between alliteration and assonance?

#18 Which German poet wrote "Der Erlkoenig" ("The Erlking")?

#19 Name three winners of the Nobel prize for poetry.

#20 Who is the current poet laureate of England?

#21 What is the difference between accent and stress?

#22 Which poet is remembered every year on his birthday by an unknown man leaving 3 rose and a half bottle of cognac on his grave, and what is this stranger's nickname?

 

[TheDR4KE]

trivia game rules suggestion

I'm thinking that a good rule for this thread might be that for every question you answer, you have to pose at least one in return. That means I owe a couple more questions, which I'll think about tonight -- I'll try to make them good ones

Drake

 

[daughter]

Good rule

Thanks, Drake.

You can see the influences, eh? LOL Ms. Walker and I share the same birthday(different year of course).

I don't read many of the Beats, but I have friends who are influenced by them and I admire their work as well as some of the Beats.

The Plath poem is "Mirror".

I will post some of the answers that I know to your post.

*Folks please remember to quote the questions when answering.

Peace,

daughter

 

[daughter]

Nobel Prize for Literature (Poets)

#19 Name three winners of the Nobel prize for poetry.

1971 Pablo Neruda
1995 Seamus Heaney
1996 Wislawa Szymborska

I enjoyed the search, Drake.

Peace,

daughter

 

[alice]

Re: yet more questions

#17 What is the difference between alliteration and assonance

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alliteration is the use of similar consonant sounds in a line or words= little lady

assonance is the subtle use of vowels in a similar fashion=dates fade

alice

 

[Ded Poet]

#18 Which German poet wrote "Der Erlkoenig" ("The Erlking")?

Geothe

#20 Who is the current poet laureate of England?

Andrew Motion. Now I have to actually go out and read something by him ;-)

#21 What is the difference between accent and stress?

Well, I think this is kind of a trick question, because they're pretty damn near synonyms. But I would say that an accent refers more to the prominance of certain words or syllables as result of the meter of the piece--more hrythmic, while a stress refers to a word or syllable that stands out or jumps out at you...( but then, aren't there 'stronger' and 'weaker' stresses?).
I think I'm close...

#22 Which poet is remembered every year on his birthday by an unknown man leaving 3rose and a half bottle of cognac on his grave, and what is this stranger's nickname?

I'm guessing Rimbaud. The stranger? How about 'the drunken poetry fan'?

I believe I owe y'all at least 11.

 

[Whispersecret]

I knew the answers to a few of these, so I don't feel like a complete dummy. But I do know who painted the Potato Eaters. LOL. Yeah. That's right--studied art history, not poetry. So there. Nyah.

 

[TheDR4KE]

Re: Good rule

Dughter wrote

You can see the influences, eh? LOL Ms. Walker and I share the same birthday(different year of course).


We'll have to remember that Coming up soon, hey.


The Plath poem is "Mirror".


ah, thanks.

Drake

 

[TheDR4KE]

Re: Nobel Prize for Literature (Poets)


1971 Pablo Neruda
1995 Seamus Heaney
1996 Wislawa Szymborska

That's 3 ... there's plenty more Next answer should throw a poem, or link to a poem, up as well...

#23 Name 3 more nobel laureate poets and give a poem for each

I'll give you some for these three...

1971 Pablo Neruda

I do not love you...

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.


1995 Seamus Heaney

Personal Helicon

(for Michael Longley)

As a child, they could not keep me from wells
And old pumps with buckets and windlasses.
I loved the dark drop, the trapped sky, the smells
Of waterweed, fungus and dank moss.

One, in a brickyard, with a rotted board top.
I savoured the rich crash when a bucket
Plummeted down at the end of a rope.
So deep you saw no reflection in it.

A shallow one under a dry stone ditch
Fructified like any aquarium.
When you dragged out long roots from the soft mulch
A white face hovered over the bottom.

Others had echoes, gave back your own call
With a clean new music in it. And one
Was scaresome, for there, out of ferns and tall
Foxgloves, a rat slapped across my reflection.

Now, to pry into roots, to finger slime,
To stare, big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring
Is beneath all adult dignity. I rhyme
To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.




1996 Wislawa Szymborska


Love at First Sight

They both thought
that a sudden feeling had united them
This certainty is beautiful,
Even more beautiful than uncertainty.

They thought they didn't know each other,
nothing had ever happened between them,
These streets, these stairs, this corridors,
Where they could have met so long ago?

I would like to ask them,
if they can remember -
perhaps in a revolving door
face to face one day?
A "sorry" in the crowd?
"Wrong number" on the 'phone?
- but I know the answer.
No, they don't remember.

How surprised they would be
For such a long time already
Fate has been playing with them.

Not quite yet ready
to change into destiny,
which brings them nearer and yet further,
cutting their path
and stifling a laugh,
escaping ever further;
There were signs, indications,
undecipherable, what does it matter.
Three years ago, perhaps
or even last Tuesday,
this leaf flying
from one shoulder to another?
Something lost and gathered.
Who knows, perhaps a ball already
in the bushes, in childhood?

There were handles, door bells,
where, on the trace of a hand,
another hand was placed;
suitcases next to one another in the
left luggage.
And maybe one night the same dream
forgotten on walking;

But every beginning
is only a continuation
and the book of fate is
always open in the middle.


Translation from Polish by Roman Gren
Translation from French by Sarah Hardenberg


I enjoyed the search, Drake.


and that's what it's all about, isn't it Learning and enjoying it.

Drake

 

[TheDR4KE]

That's right--studied art history, not poetry. So there. Nyah.

Wouldn't know it from your stories and poems. Really enjoyed those

Drake

 

[TheDR4KE]

Re: Re: yet more questions

alliteration is the use of similar consonant sounds in a line or words= little lady

assonance is the subtle use of vowels in a similar fashion=dates fade

alice

Spot on. 5 points.

Your turn to ask us one ;-)

Drake

 

[TheDR4KE]

Ded Poet answered:

#18 Which German poet wrote "Der Erlkoenig" ("The Erlking")?

Geothe

Is the correct answer. (although it's Goethe if we were being pedantic about it ;-)

#20 Who is the current poet laureate of England?

Andrew Motion. Now I have to actually go out and read something by him ;-)

Mm hmmmm

Here's one he wrote for a September 11 memorial service:



Friday November 30, 2001

The voices live which are the voices lost:
we hear them and we answer, or we try,
but words are nervous when you need them most
and shatter, stop or dully slide away

so everything they mean to summon up
is always just too far, just out of reach,
unless our memories give time the slip
and learn the lessons that heart-wisdoms teach

of how in grief we find a way to keep
the dead beside us as our time goes on -
invisible and silent, but the deep
foundations of ourselves, our corner-stone





#21 What is the difference between accent and stress?

Well, I think this is kind of a trick question, because they're pretty damn near synonyms. But I would say that an accent refers more to the prominance of certain words or syllables as result of the meter of the piece--more hrythmic, while a stress refers to a word or syllable that stands out or jumps out at you...( but then, aren't there 'stronger' and 'weaker' stresses?).
I think I'm close...

Yeah, good work

Accent is the emphasis we put on syllables, known as iambs (emphasis on second syllable for a two syllable word) or trochees (emphasis on first syllable for two syllable word). Hence iambic pentameter, for example, with the rhythm on every second syllable.

Stress is the emphasis we put on certain words, which may eclipse the more natural accents of the words surrounding that word. So you can turn a word that is accented da-DUM (iamb) into just da-da by having a word near it that overshadows it with it's stress.

For example, in the poem above, the iamb word 'away' at the end of the lines
but words are nervous when you need them most
and shatter, stop or dully slide away
is drowned out by the stress on the word 'slide'.

Traditional, form based, poetry tends to have strong accent structure. Free verse doesn't, but tends to work best when it has a strong stress based structure or rhythm.

#22 Which poet is remembered every year on his birthday by an unknown man leaving 3rose and a half bottle of cognac on his grave, and what is this stranger's nickname?

I'm guessing Rimbaud. The stranger? How about 'the drunken poetry fan'?

Nope, you'll have to try again on that one, or maybe someone else knows One more wrong guess and I'll give a clue ;-)

I believe I owe y'all at least 11.

I guess we could keep score -- how about you just post one ;-)

Drake

 

[daughter]

The teacher in you

Thanks DR4KE.

Another good idea. I belive I owe a question or two and we're missing some answers.

KatPurrs, what are you waiting on? Post a question or answer, but don't just be a spectator.

Peace,

daughter

 

[TheDR4KE]

open questions


#8 Name 3(more) Beat Poets? (I only thought of 2

#22 Which poet is remembered every year on his birthday by an unknown man leaving 3 rose and a half bottle of cognac on his grave, and what is this stranger's nickname?

#23 Name 3 more nobel laureate poets and give a poem for each

 

[TheDR4KE]

IOUs

These people owe some questions ;-)

TheDR4KE
Ded Poet
Daughter
Alice
Anyone else who is reading this thread and wants to play


If we all post some a question for everyone we answer we can keep the thread going -- and I think that would be a fun thing

Drake

 

[WriterDom]

22- Poe , the Poe toaster

 

[alice]

poetry form

#23 A poem in a fixed form, consisting of a varying number of 4-line stanzas with lines rhyming alternately; the second and fourth lines of each stanza are repeated to form the first and third lines of the succeeding stanza, with the first and third lines of the first stanza forming the second and fourth of the last stanza, but in reverse order, so that the opening and closing lines of the poem are identical. What is this form?

DR4KE, I will post a contemporary example when it is answered correctly.

alice

 

[TheDR4KE]

22- Poe , the Poe toaster

I figured someone had to know it Well done.

Yup, Edgar Allen Poe, and the "Poe Toaster" is the stranger who visits his grave every year since 1949. (Poe died in 1849, but this custom only started in 1949.)

Drake