Identification Of American Poetry Before 1925

This is an MCQ-based quiz for GRE on the Identification Of American Poetry Before 1925.

This includes poems like Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, Hope is the Thing With Feathers, Mending Wall, and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

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In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter – bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.”

The same author also wrote which famous war novel?

The Naked and the Dead

The Red Badge of Courage

All Quiet on the Western Front

For Whom the Bell Tolls

The Scarlet Letter

In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter – bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.”

During which decade was this poem published?

1890s

1820s

1920s

1900s

1910s

In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter – bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.”

Who wrote this poem?

Walt Whitman

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Stephen Crane

Ambrose Bierce

Emily Dickinson

Concord Hymn
 
"By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
   Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
   And fired the shot heard round the world.
 
The foe long since in silence slept;
   Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
   Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
 
On this green bank, by this soft stream,
   We set today a votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem,
   When, like our sires, our sons are gone."

Which poet wrote the above lines?

Edgar Allan Poe

Walt Whitman

Emily Dickinson

Robert Frost

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hear the sledges with the bells,           
          Silver bells!      
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!     
    How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,         
        In the icy air of night!     
    While the stars, that oversprinkle    
    All the heavens, seem to twinkle     
        With a crystalline delight;           
      Keeping time, time, time,   
      In a sort of Runic rhyme,  
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells           
    From the bells, bells, bells, bells,     
          Bells, bells, bells—       
  From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

This stanza is from a poem by which poet?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emily Dickinson

Edgar Allan Poe

Robert Frost

William Cullen Bryant

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question ...
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”

This author of this poem also wrote __________.

"Sunday Morning"

Dream of Fair to Middling Women

"Tradition and the Individual Talent"

"The Red Wheelbarrow"

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me – 
The Carriage held but just Ourselves – 
And Immortality.

This stanza opens a famous poem by which American author?

Walt Whitman

Edgar Allan Poe

Anne Bradstreet

Emily Dickinson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Song of Hiawatha
 
"On the shores of Gitche Gumee,
Of the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood Nokomis, the old woman,
Pointing with her finger westward,
O"er the water pointing westward,
To the purple clouds of sunset."

Who wrote the poem from which these lines are taken?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Stephen Crane

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walt Whitman

Robert Frost

In the Desert
 
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
 
“But I like it
“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”

Which American author wrote this poem?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stephen Crane

Walt Whitman

Robert Frost

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“So live, that when thy summons comes to join  
The innumerable caravan, which moves  
To that mysterious realm, where each shall take  
His chamber in the silent halls of death,  
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,  
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed  
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,  
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch  
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.”

These lines conclude an American poem titled “Thanatopsis.” Who is the author?

William Cullen Bryant

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Phillis Wheatley

Robert Frost

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: Identification Of American Poetry Before 1925
Questions: 10
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