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What label came to define poetry by Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton, among others, that focused on extreme autobiographical details about sex, divorce, alcoholism, insanity, which led readers to believe the poets had lived through those experiences personally?
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277 times |
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246 times (73.2%) |
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easy |
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31 times (9.2%) |
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59 times (17.6%) |
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Anne Sexton's Transformations (1971) is a collection of poems that retell __________.
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168 times |
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89 times (31.2%) |
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difficult |
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79 times (27.7%) |
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117 times (41.1%) |
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According to Anne Sexton what does Cinderella's father bring her from town?
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135 times |
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62 times (27.7%) |
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difficult |
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73 times (32.6%) |
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89 times (39.7%) |
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For which poetry collection did Anne Sexton win the Pulitzer prize?
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115 times |
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44 times (22.1%) |
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difficult |
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71 times (35.7%) |
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84 times (42.2%) |
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Anne Sexton did spoken word poetry with a music band/ensemble. What were they called?
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98 times |
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35 times (19.0%) |
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very difficult |
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63 times (34.2%) |
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86 times (46.7%) |
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Which fairy tale does Anne Sexton *not* rewrite in her collection Transformations?
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99 times |
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37 times (18.2%) |
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very difficult |
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62 times (30.5%) |
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104 times (51.2%) |
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The subject matter of whose work was described by fellow poet Philip Larkin as "variously, neurosis, insanity, disease, death, horror, terror"?
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174 times |
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113 times (44.5%) |
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medium |
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61 times (24.0%) |
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80 times (31.5%) |
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![Complete this [a:Anne Sexton|26814|Anne Sexton|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1204413778p2/26814.jpg] quote:
"Depression is ..., I think
and I would do better to make
some soup and light up the cave"?](http://photo.goodreads.com/questions/1209918691p1/3470.jpg)
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Complete this Anne Sexton quote:
"Depression is ..., I think
and I would do better to make
some soup and light up the cave"?
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265 times |
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174 times (32.3%) |
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difficult |
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91 times (16.9%) |
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273 times (50.7%) |
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![What do [a:Sylvia Plath|4379|Sylvia Plath|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1188476749p2/4379.jpg], [a:Anne Sexton|26814|Anne Sexton|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1204413778p2/26814.jpg], [a:Robert Lowell|36912|Robert Lowell|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206627850p2/36912.jpg] and [a:Allen Ginsberg|4261|Allen Ginsberg|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206649831p2/4261.jpg] have in common?](http://photo.goodreads.com/questions/1210200009p1/3760.jpg)
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What do Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell and Allen Ginsberg have in common?
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497 times |
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242 times (32.4%) |
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difficult |
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255 times (34.1%) |
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250 times (33.5%) |
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![Who wrote the poem?
"Sylvia's Death - for Sylvia Plath
O Sylvia, Sylvia,
with a dead box of stones and spoons,
with two children, two meteors
wandering loose in a tiny playroom,
with your mouth into the sheet,
into the roofbeam, into the dumb prayer,
(Sylvia, Sylvia
where did you go
after you wrote me
from Devonshire
about rasing potatoes
and keeping bees?)"
[...:]](http://photo.goodreads.com/questions/1238419848p1/42749.jpg)
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Who wrote the poem?
"Sylvia's Death - for Sylvia Plath
O Sylvia, Sylvia,
with a dead box of stones and spoons,
with two children, two meteors
wandering loose in a tiny playroom,
with your mouth into the sheet,
into the roofbeam, into the dumb prayer,
(Sylvia, Sylvia
where did you go
after you wrote me
from Devonshire
about rasing potatoes
and keeping bees?)"
[...:]
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137 times |
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87 times (45.3%) |
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medium |
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50 times (26.0%) |
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55 times (28.6%) |
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What do the writers Karin Boye, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Sara Teasdale not have in common?
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255 times |
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105 times (26.4%) |
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difficult |
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150 times (37.7%) |
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143 times (35.9%) |
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This poet wrote the poem "Her Kind," which begins with the following line:
"I have gone out, a possessed witch"
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231 times |
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139 times (23.8%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
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92 times (15.8%) |
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353 times (60.4%) |
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True or false: Anne Sexton's play Mercy Street was a Broadway production.
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157 times |
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77 times (20.4%) |
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difficult |
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80 times (21.2%) |
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221 times (58.5%) |
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Who wrote Live or Die?
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166 times |
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93 times (20.8%) |
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difficult |
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73 times (16.3%) |
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281 times (62.9%) |
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Who wrote in a poem of Galway Kinnell encountering Anne Sexton...
"and there they were, the two
beautiful poets, staring at
each others' beautiful eyes
as I drank the lees of her wine."?
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187 times |
| Correct: |
28 times (4.8%) |
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really really difficult |
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159 times (27.5%) |
| Skipped: |
391 times (67.6%) |
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What is the street number the Speaker is searching for on Mercy Street? Anne Sexton
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| Answered: |
95 times |
| Correct: |
46 times (18.8%) |
| Difficulty: |
very difficult |
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49 times (20.0%) |
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150 times (61.2%) |
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What did Anne Sexton do before she rose to fame in a literary career?
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84 times |
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49 times (35.0%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
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35 times (25.0%) |
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56 times (40.0%) |
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Memoirs and poet-lore have it that Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and George Starbuck, after leaving their writing workshop, would go out for martinis at what hotel bar in Boston?
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77 times |
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35 times (24.6%) |
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42 times (29.6%) |
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65 times (45.8%) |
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Name the 20th century poet pictured here
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59 times |
| Correct: |
44 times (60.3%) |
| Difficulty: |
medium |
| Incorrect: |
15 times (20.5%) |
| Skipped: |
14 times (19.2%) |
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