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What Greek myth does William Butler Yeats describe in "Leda and the Swan?"
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1756 times (42.8%) |
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Which poem by William Butler Yeats ends, "O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, / How can we know the dancer from the dance?"
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189 times |
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64 times (16.5%) |
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Colm Tóibín's The Master is a fictionalized biography of ...
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98 times (37.1%) |
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If cats could write poetry, in Henry Beard's Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse, whose Practical Cat might have submitted an entry entitled "The Love Song of J. Morris Housecat?"
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256 times |
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199 times (65.7%) |
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57 times (18.8%) |
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Which member of the Bloomsbury Group did William Butler Yeats dub 'the handsomest young man in England'?
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91 times |
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43 times (25.1%) |
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What poet's spirit did W.B. Yeats believe he could commune with?
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302 times |
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110 times (17.3%) |
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192 times (30.2%) |
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What non-fiction work of W.B. Yeats did he believe to be inspired by communing with ancient Tibetan sages?
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257 times |
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125 times (20.9%) |
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difficult |
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132 times (22.1%) |
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341 times (57.0%) |
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The Irish poet William Butler Yeats made reference to his life-long muse, Maud Gonne, by often writing as though she were what mythical woman?
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212 times |
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126 times (27.3%) |
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86 times (18.7%) |
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Who wrote these lines?
"Who lets so fair a house fall to decay,
Which husbandry in honour might uphold
Against the stormy gusts of winter's day
And barren rage of death's eternal cold?"
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99 times |
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53 times (39.0%) |
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difficult |
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46 times (33.8%) |
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37 times (27.2%) |
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In which of these poems by William Butler Yeats do we find the lines "That is no country for old men" and "An aged man is but a paltry thing"?
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316 times |
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197 times (45.4%) |
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119 times (27.4%) |
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Who wrote these lines?
"All perform their tragic play,
There struts Hamlet, there is Lear,
That's Ophelia, that Cordelia;
Yet they, should the last scene be there,
The great stage curtain about to drop,
If worthy their prominent part in the play,
Do not break up their lines to weep."
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69 times |
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28 times (27.5%) |
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difficult |
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41 times (40.2%) |
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33 times (32.4%) |
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For William Butler Yeats, a "gyre" represented...
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332 times |
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171 times (22.4%) |
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difficult |
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161 times (21.0%) |
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433 times (56.6%) |
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet: "Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world."
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511 times |
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325 times (41.2%) |
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medium |
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186 times (23.6%) |
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Who wrote this little poem?
"Experiment to me
Is every one I meet.
If it contain a kernel?
The figure of a nut
Presents upon a tree,
Equally plausibly;
But meat within is requisite,
To squirrels and to me."
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62 times |
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44 times (48.4%) |
| Difficulty: |
medium |
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18 times (19.8%) |
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29 times (31.9%) |
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Who wrote this little poem?
"Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.
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64 times |
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38 times (41.3%) |
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medium |
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26 times (28.3%) |
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28 times (30.4%) |
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Who wrote these lines?
"What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands
What water lapping the bow
And scent of pine and the woodthrush singing through the fog
What images return
O my daughter."
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62 times |
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34 times (38.2%) |
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28 times (31.5%) |
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Who wrote these lines?
"Carry her over the water,
And set her down under the tree,
Where the culvers white all day and all night,
And the winds from every quarter,
Sing agreeably, agreeably, agreeably of love."
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68 times |
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24 times (28.6%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
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44 times (52.4%) |
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16 times (19.0%) |
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Who wrote these lines?
"She hears me strike the board and say
That she is under ban
Of all good men and women,
Being mentioned with a man
That has the worst of all bad names;
And thereupon replies
That his hair is beautiful,
Cold as the March wind his eyes."
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58 times |
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30 times (37.0%) |
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28 times (34.6%) |
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23 times (28.4%) |
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Who wrote these lines?
"I had this thought a while ago,
'My darling cannot understand
What I have done, or what would do
In this blind bitter land.'"
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60 times |
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24 times (30.0%) |
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36 times (45.0%) |
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Who claimed this?
"For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives
In the valley of its saying where executives
Would never want to tamper; it flows south
From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs,
Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives,
A way of happening, a mouth."
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58 times |
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18 times (21.7%) |
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40 times (48.2%) |
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Which one of these ancient Greek philosophers is NOT mentioned in William Butler Yeats's poem, "The Delphic Oracle upon Plotinus"?
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36 times |
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7 times (10.1%) |
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Fill in the missing name of a mythological creature in this stanza from William Butler Yeats's poem, "The Delphic Oracle upon Plotinus":
"Behold that great Plotinus swim,
Buffeted by such seas;
Bland ___________ beckons him,
But the Golden Race looks dim,
Salt blood blocks his eyes."
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46 times |
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17 times (23.9%) |
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difficult |
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29 times (40.8%) |
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"The mass and majesty of this world, all
That carries weight and always weighs the same
Lay in the hands of others; they were small
And could not hope for help and no help came:
What their foes like to do was done, their shame
Was all the worst could wish; they lost their pride
And died as men before their bodies died."
Who wrote this?
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57 times |
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34 times (33.7%) |
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23 times (22.8%) |
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Which writer was not a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn?
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72 times |
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23 times (19.0%) |
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49 times (40.5%) |
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
Supple and turbulent, a ring of men
Shall chant in orgy on a summer morn
Their boisterous devotion to the sun,
Not as a god, but as a god might be.
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79 times |
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33 times (29.2%) |
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The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon
Name the quoted poet: "I grow old ... I grow old ... / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled."
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86 times |
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60 times (55.6%) |
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26 times (24.1%) |
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
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55 times |
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39 times (51.3%) |
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16 times (21.1%) |
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
Back out of all this now too much for us,
Back in a time made simple by the loss
Of detail, burned, dissolved, and broken off
Like graveyard marble sculpture in the weather,
There is a house that is no more a house
Upon a farm that is no more a farm
And in a town that is no more a town.
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44 times |
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19 times (28.4%) |
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25 times (37.3%) |
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
Take from the dresser of deal,
Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
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38 times |
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20 times (37.0%) |
| Difficulty: |
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18 times (33.3%) |
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.
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53 times |
| Correct: |
37 times (51.4%) |
| Difficulty: |
medium |
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16 times (22.2%) |
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19 times (26.4%) |
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