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In Robert Frost's poem The Mending Wall the speaker describes his neighbor near the end of the poem: “I see him there / Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top / In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.” Is his hand holding the stones:
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Why do the two neighbors meet in the poem The Mending Wall by Robert Frost?
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In Robert Frost's poem The Mending Wall what does the wall between the two farms actually separate?
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65 times (27.9%) |
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In Robert Frost's poem The Mending Wall what is the speaker’s neighbor’s favorite saying?
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141 times (58.0%) |
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In Robert Frost's poem The Mending Wall whom does the speaker briefly consider blaming the wall’s disrepair on?
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60 times (25.2%) |
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In Robert Frost's poem The Mending Wall which season does the speaker credit with prompting him to ask a mischievous question?
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73 times (31.1%) |
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In Robert Frost's poem The Mending Wall how do the speaker and his neighbor proceed along the wall?
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141 times |
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117 times (50.6%) |
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24 times (10.4%) |
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In the poem Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost, what does the "little horse" think queer?
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18199 times (57.2%) |
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From which of William Shakespeare's plays did Robert Frost's poem, "Out, Out" derive its title?
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4058 times (68.2%) |
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Who wrote Gift from the Sea?
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1328 times (45.8%) |
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666 times (22.9%) |
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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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232 times |
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130 times (42.5%) |
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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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How many times did Robert Frost win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry?
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122 times (36.9%) |
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The poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) was engaged for a while in 1906 to which famous American poet?
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74 times (35.9%) |
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Robert Frost wrote, "Good fences make..." WHAT?
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8784 times |
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8053 times (83.7%) |
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Singer/songwriter Robert Zimmerman took his stage name from which poet?
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94 times (53.1%) |
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WHEN I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain,
Before high piled books, in charact’ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen’d grain;
When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love!—then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.
Was written by
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What does the wife see through the window at the beginning of Robert Frost's "Home Burial"?
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100 times (14.6%) |
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"Earth's the right place for love" is a line from what Robert Frost poem?
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94 times (15.8%) |
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To which fellow poet did T.S. Eliot dedicate his poem The Waste Land?
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75 times (57.3%) |
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Which renowned poet in 1936 purportedly broke his hand after hitting Ernest Hemingway on the jaw who in return knocked him down? (They had another violent argument in 1940.)
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28 times (19.0%) |
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Who wrote the poem "The Road Not Taken"?
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683 times (89.9%) |
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Name the poet:
I step through origins
like a dog turning
its memories of wilderness
on the kitchen mat
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What poet wrote these first lines:
Traveling through the dark I found a deer
dead on the edge of the Wilson River road
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"Don't let him cut my hand off, the doctor when he comes, don't let him sister!" is a quote from which famous author?
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Who is the poet who wrote this?
"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
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6321 times (82.0%) |
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"I gave Bert sex; I had to. He was over at our house struggling with a poem he couldn't finish, so I took him upstairs and gave him sex. He came downstairs and finished that verse in twenty-five minutes."
Reportedly the words of Alice Dax about the day a young writer lost his virginity. Who was the twenty-two year-old she knew as Bert?
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Who wrote these lines of poetry?
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other soound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
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The New Oxford Book of American Verse
Name the quoted poet: "I will teach you my townspeople how to perform a funeral."
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In Robert Frost's poem, "Blue Butterfly Day", what has "freshly sliced the April mire"?
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