
NAQT Poetry
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- Q1FrostThe line "and miles to go before I sleep" is repeated at the end of "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening," a poem by what author?30s
- Q2LongfellowWhat "Fireside Poet" wrote the long work "The Song of Hiawatha," inspired by Native American mythology?30s
- Q3Tenth MuseColonial port Anne Bradstreet's major collection is titled for what figure "lately sprung up in America"?30s
- Q4The Statue of LibertyOn what large work of art is Emma Lazarus's poem "The New Colossus" inscribed?30s
- Q5The Harlem RenaissanceLangston Hughes and Countee Cullen were members of what largely African-American literary and cultural movement of the early 20th century?30s
- Q6HowlWhat long poem, which begins "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness," was written by Allen Ginsberg, a member of the "Beat Generation"?30s
- Q7PlathWhat female poet wrote the collection "Ariel" and the poem "Daddy"?30s
- Q8SandburgWhat poet praised the "City of the Big Shoulders" in his poem "Chicago"?30s
- Q9The Waste Land"April is the cruellest month" is the first line of what long poem by T.S. Eliot?30s
- Q10Belle of AmherstEmily Dickinson was known as the "Belle" of what Massachusetts town, where she spent most of her adult life as a recluse in her family town?30s
- Q11WhitmanWhat poet described sounding his "barbaric yawp" in his poem "Song of Myself"?30s
- Q12BryantWhat 19th-century American poet wrote "Thanatopsis" and "To a Waterfowl"?30s
- Q13CummingsWhat poet's unusual punctuation and capitalization are on display in "anyone lived in a pretty how town"?30s
- Q14PoeWhat man wrote of a creature that repeats the word "nevermore" in his poem "The Raven"?30s
- Q15PoundThe two-liner poem "In a Station of the Metro" was written by what Modernist and Imagist poet, who also wrote the Cantos?30s