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Poetry Quiz

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Here are some of my favorite lines which portray the most moving of thoughts and feelings. Identify the poet who wrote them:

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    This is the way the world ends / not with a bang but a whimper

    • T.S Eliot
    • Wordsworth
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    O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; / The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won

    • Javon Johnson
    • Walt Whitman
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    The caged bird sings with a fearful trill/ Of things unknown but longed for still/ And his tune is heard on the distant hill/ For the caged bird sings of freedom

    • Maya Angelou
    • William Butler Yeats
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    Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, / Or bends with the remover to remove: / O no; it is an ever-fixed mark, / That looks on tempests, and is never shake

    • William Shakespeare
    • Ezra Pound
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    You may write me down in history / With your bitter, twisted lies, / You may trod me in the very dirt / But still, like dust, I’ll rise

    • Sylvia Plath
    • Maya Angelou
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    Water, water, every where, / And all the boards did shrink; / Water, water, every where / Nor any drop to drink

    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    • Langston Hughes
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    What is this life if, full of care,/We have no time to stand and stare

    • Milton
    • W.H. Davies
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    A thing of beauty is a joy forever

    • Keats
    • Yeats
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    Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all

    • Tennyson
    • Shelley

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