Retest on American Poets

There will be a retest on Tuesday of the American Poets.

Use your handout to study and the first test.

Here are the poets you should know and some information from the first test.  The retest will be in a different format, though!

NAME:

AMERICAN POETS QUIZ

1.     W. H. Auden

2.     Anne Bradstreet

3.     e. e. cummings

4.     Emily Dickinson

5.     T.S. Eliot

6.     Robert Frost

7.     Langston Hughes

8.     Francis Scott Key

9.     Emma Lazarus

10. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

11. Edgar Lee Masters

12. Marianne Moore

13. Ezra Pound

14. Edward Arlington Robinson

15. Carl Sandburg

16. Wallace Stevens

17. Phyllis Wheatley

18. Walt Whitman

19. William Carlos Williams

20. Edgar Allan Poe

 a.     “Chicago,” biographer of Lincoln

b.     “The Star-Spangled Banner”

c.      “The New Colossus”

d.     “Hiawatha” “Paul Revere’s Ride” and other long poems

e.     “Mother to Son” “Dream Deferred”

f.      “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

g.     Colonial poet, first published American poet

h.     “Hope is a thing with feathers”

i.       “Annabel Lee”, “The Raven

j.       “Mending Wall”,  inauguaral poem for John F. Kennedy

k.      “Poetry”—(I, too dislike it:)

l.       “Richard Cory” “Miniver Cheevy”

m.   insurance executive who wrote

“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

n.      edited “The Wasteland” for T. S. Eliot, the Cantos

o.     African poet , Negro Slave-poet of Boston

p.      “Song of Myself”

q.     “September 1, 1939”

r.       Spoon River Anthology

s.       experimented with typography in his poems, “in just spring”

t.      doctor who wrote “The Red Wheelbarrow”   “This is just to Say”--