25 Poetry Trivia Questions for Your Inner Lyricist

1. What flowers grow in Flanders Fields, according to the John McCrae poem?

2. Which animal is described as 'sleekit, cowrin' and timorous' by Robert Burns?

3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is divided into how many parts?

4. Poet Pablo Neruda was from which country?

5. Charles Baudelaire is one of the most famous poets from which country?

6. What two letter word is the title of one of Rudyard Kipling's most famous poems?

1. Which English poet wrote 'Ozymandias'?

2. Dante's epic poem 'The Divine Comedy' was written in which century?

3. Which American wrote the inspirational poem called 'Still I Rise'?

4. What is the name for a group of lines within a poem?

5. Who wrote the poem which starts 'Tyger, tyger burning bright'?

6. American poet Edgar Allen Poe wrote a famous poem about which type of bird?

1. William Wordsworth wrote a poem about wandering lonely as a what?

2. Which successful musical is based on the poems of TS Eliot?

3. Wilfred Owen's poetry is mostly associated with which conflict?

4. The Bell Jar' was the only novel by which famous poet?

5. Haiku is a form of poetry from which country?

6. Poet Robert Burns is most associated with which country?

1. What is the first name of French poet Baudelaire?

2. What age was Percy Bysshe Shelley when he died in 1822?

3. Epic poem 'Beowulf' is set in which part of the world?

4. A type of five line humorous poem is named after which Irish city?

5. The darling buds of which month are mentioned by Shakespeare in sonnet 18?

6. Poet Pablo Neruda is from which country?

1. Jabberwocky' is a nonsense poem by which famous writer?