Poetry Hunt

Using the Internet get the answers to the following questions and be able to answer them on a test.

1.  What is a Poet Laureate?

2.  Who was our last Poet Laureate of the United States?

3.  Does New Jersey have a Poet Laureate?  Why or why not?

4.  Put the following poets in chronological order. Give one title of an "important work" they penned.

• William Shakespeare
• ee cummings
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Steven Crane
• E.A. Poe
• Ovid
• John Donne

5. Find a definition of the following types of  poetry making sure that you have centered in on what makes each one unique.  Name a poet from each who is the epitome of the movement and/or the form.

1. Romanticism 
2. Transcendent
3. Metaphysical
4. Lyric
5. Ballad
6. Confessional
7. Elegy
8. Beat
9. Victorian
10. Modernism
11. Harlem Renaissance
12. Ode
13. Sonnet

6. Find a famous "carpe diem" poem by Robert Herrick

7.  What poet coined the term "Beat" movement?

8. What is a CINQUAIN?

9. What is Robert Frost's middle Name?

10. Dead or Alive?

1. Robert Frost
2. Allen Ginsberg 
3. Maya Angelou
4. Billy Collins
5. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
6. James Dickey
7. Gwendolyn Brooks
8. Richard Wilbur
9. Seamus Heaney
10. Gregory Nunzio Corso

11. Where all of Shakespeare's sonnets written to a young lady?

12. Who are the third worst poets in the universe?

13. A limerick poem is so named because it was developed in Limerick Ireland.  True or False

14. Name a poet who died from rabies, an alcoholic coma, an attach by thieves, and possibly  congestion of the brain .

15. Why do some feel the William Shakespeare translated Psalm 46 for the King James Bible?