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Who is "O Captain! My Captain!" about?
Walt Whitman
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Who said "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation?"
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them"
... is a quote by ...
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If cats could write poetry, in Henry Beard's Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse, whose cat might have submitted an entry entitled "Meow of Myself," which begins:
"I situate myself, and seat myself,
And where you recline I shall recline,
For every armchair belonging to you as good as belongs to me."
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What writer tended to the Union wounded during the Civil War?
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Leaves of Grass was what writer's first published volume of poetry?
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For whom did Walt Whitman write the poem 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd'?
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Which of the following is not a poem by Walt Whitman?
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Walt Whitman's collection of War Poetry is called what?
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Which 19th-century American writer once exclaimed that he would rather "be damned to John Bunyan's heaven" than read Henry James's novel, The Bostonians?
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Walt Whitman's poem "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed" mourns what event?
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Which poet wrote:
"Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed / And worthy of acceptation"?
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Which English-language poet wrote the following words in answer to a fan letter he received?
"I suppose that my classical training has been of some use to me in furnishing good models, and making me fastidious, and telling me what to leave out. My chief object in publishing my verses was to give pleasure to a few young men here and there, and I am glad if they have given pleasure to you."
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Who wrote a lengthy, flattering letter to Walt Whitman on the first publication of Leaves of Grass, saying: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career"?
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Who wrote The Trumpet of the Swan?
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"Simply Apologizing without a thought would be nothing but a nuisance. There would be no meaning in such an act."
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In Walt Whitman's "Oh Captain, My Captain," to whom is he referring?
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Which one of these authors' work does NOT receive an extended discussion in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's groundbreaking work of criticism: Epistemology of the Closet?
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"Caesar's double-bed is warm
As an unimportant clerk
Writes I DO NOT LIKE MY WORK
On a pink official form.
Unendowed with wealth or pity,
Little birds with scarlet legs,
Sitting on their speckled eggs,
Eye each flu-infected city.
Altogether elsewhere, vast
Herds of reindeer move across
Miles and miles of golden moss,
Silently and very fast."
These are the last lines of a poem on the downfall of which city -- and who wrote it?
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet: "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
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The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon
Name the quoted poet:
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely old courage-teacher,
what America did you have when Charon quit poling his ferry and
you got out on a smoking bank and stood watching the boat
disappear on the black waters of Lethe?
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