English Literature Multiple Choice Quiz

Poets and Their Works

• Walt Whitman's works include Leaves of Grass and Drum Taps.
• John Donne is a Metaphysical poet.
• Walt Whitman is known as the people's poet.

Quotes and Poems

• "I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume" is taken from Song of Myself.
• "O how feeble is man's power" is taken from An Epitaph.
• "And then the nightingale is dumb" is taken from To Autumn.
• "And then the nightingale is dumb and the prams will not come" is a line from a poem.
• "But believe that I shall make speedier journeys" is taken from Fire-Hymn.
• "My life's blood death decay" is taken from Snake.
• "Hoping to cease not till death" is a line from The Soldier.
• "That thou lovest me, as thou say'st" is taken from Sweetest Love I Don't Go.
• "I permit to speak at every hazard" is taken from Song of Myself.
• "Arms raised stiffly to reprove" is taken from Song of Myself.
• "Nurse's flowers will not last" is taken from Now the Leaves are Falling.

Biographical Information

• Walt Whitman worked as a volunteer nurse in the Civil War.
• John Donne died in 1631.
• Walter de la Mare was born in 1873.
• John Donne was forced to leave Oxford University without a degree.
• Walt Whitman says "every atom of blood is the same in all human beings".

Miscellaneous

• In Walter de la Mare's songs, there is a note of melancholy.
• The nightingale is dumb in the poem "Now the Leaves are Falling Fast".
• Walter de la Mare's poetry is characterized by a sense of melancholy.
• The poet in "Now the Leaves are Falling Fast" sees the leaves falling slowly.