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29/06/2015 Poet's Corner

Pictures of 20 well-known poets appear in alphabetical sequence of their surnames.

A snippet from an often-quoted poem from each of these poets is also shown but sadly the snippets have got muddled up and appear against the wrong poet.  For each poet depicted identify a) their name and b) which of the snippets of poetry shown against the other poets was actually penned by them (use the letters tagged to each snippet to indicate your choice).

Questions with Answers

Format index

 

1.

A.

“The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair,
There's men from the barn and the forge and the mill and the fold,

The lads for the girls and the lads for the liquor are there,

And there with the rest are the lads that will never be old.”

2.

B.

“What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?

Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle,

Can patter out their hasty orisons.”

 

3.

C.

“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,

Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat.”

 

4.

D.

“When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,

And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,

I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.”

 

5.

E.

“Tyger Tyger, burning bright, 

In the forests of the night; 

What immortal hand or eye, 

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”

 

6.

F.

“It took the whole of Creation
To produce my foot, my each feather:

Now I hold Creation in my foot.”

 

7.

G.

“We look before and after,

And pine for what is not;

Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught;

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”

 

8.

H.

“The woman is perfected.   

Her dead
Body wears the smile of accomplishment,   

The illusion of a Greek necessity.”

 

9.

I.

“Earth has not anything to show more fair:

Dull would he be of soul who could pass by

A sight so touching in its majesty:

This City now doth, like a garment, wear.”

 

10.

J.

“This is the night mail crossing the Border, 

Bringing the cheque and the postal order, 

Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, 

The shop at the corner, the girl next door.”

 

11.

K.

“If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,

I’d live with scarlet Majors at the Base,

And speed glum heroes up the line to death.”

 

12.

L.

“And that will be England gone,

The shadows, the meadows, the lanes,

The guildhalls, the carved choirs.”

 

13.

M.

“Think of what our Nation stands for,

Books from Boots' and country lanes,

Free speech, free passes, class distinction,

Democracy and proper drains.”

 

14.

N.

“O, to be in England Now that April's there,

And whoever wakes in England

Sees, some morning, unaware.”

 

15.

O.

“The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks

Which practically conceal its sex.

I think it clever of the turtle
In such a fix to be so fertile. ”

 

 

 

16.

P.

“Theirs not to make reply,

Theirs not to reason why,

Theirs but to do and die:

Into the valley of Death

Rode the six hundred.”

 

17.

Q.

“An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,

In blast-beruffled plume,

Had chosen thus to fling his soul

Upon the growing gloom.”

 

18.

R.

“April is the cruellest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

 

19.

S.

“But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

 

20.

T.

“‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”