Free Poetry MCQs with Answers

• A. sentimental
• B. practical
• C. irresponsible
• D. romantic

Explanation: The shepherd presents an idealised invitation filled with love, pleasure, nature, and pastoral luxury, so he is romantic.

• A. a division of drama
• B. a division of novel
• C. a division of story
• D. a subdivision of a poem

Explanation: A stanza is a grouped unit of lines within a poem, comparable to a paragraph in prose.

• A. D.H. Lawrence
• B. John Milton
• C. John Keats
• D. None of these

Explanation: John Keats is one of the principal English Romantic poets, alongside Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, and Blake. D. H.

• A. Geoffrey Chaucer
• B. Cynewulf
• C. Robert Browning
• D. Shelley

Explanation: “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” is one of the tales in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales.” Its comic animal fable centres on the rooster…

• A. Byron
• B. Shelley
• C. Tennyson
• D. None of these

Explanation: George Gordon, Lord Byron wrote *Childe Harold's Pilgrimage*, a major Romantic narrative poem that established his reputation.

• A. Bion's lament for Adonis
• B. Lycidas
• C. In Memoriam
• D. None of these

Explanation: Shelley’s *Adonais* follows the tradition of Bion’s lament for Adonis, using pastoral mourning for a dead figure.

• A. 1843 b...1844
• B. 1845
• C. 1846
• D. none of these

Explanation: William Wordsworth became Poet Laureate in 1843, succeeding Robert Southey.

• A. Dante
• B. Shakespeare
• C. Wordsworth
• D. Shelley

Explanation: Shakespeare had the strongest literary influence on Keats, especially through Shakespeare’s dramatic imagination, language and…

• A. 1809
• B. 1810
• C. 1811
• D. 1812

Explanation: Alfred, Lord Tennyson was born in 1809 at Somersby, Lincolnshire. He later became the leading Victorian poet and served as Poet Laureate.

• A. cain
• B. Childe Herald's Pilgrimage
• C. Don Juan
• D. the prisoner of Chillon

Explanation: Byron’s travels through Spain, Malta, Albania and Greece inspired the first two cantos of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.

• A. poet
• B. dramatist
• C. artist
• D. scientist

Explanation: Edmund Spenser is chiefly remembered as an Elizabethan poet, especially for *The Faerie Queene* and the Spenserian stanza.

• A. Shelley
• B. Robert Browning
• C. William Shakespeare
• D. Wordsworth

Explanation: *The Ring and the Book* is a long dramatic monologue sequence by Robert Browning, based on an Italian murder trial.

• A. A. Lord Tennyson
• B. George Bernard Shaw
• C. William Shakespeare
• D. Christopher Marlowe

Explanation: *The Two Voices* is a philosophical poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, also known in earlier form as *The Two Voices*.

• A. William Wordsworth
• B. John Keats
• C. William Shakespeare
• D. T. S. Eliot

Explanation: William Shakespeare is widely called England's national poet because of his lasting influence on English language, drama, and culture.

• A. Shelley
• B. William Shakespeare
• C. Wordsworth
• D. Robert Browning

Explanation: A Grammarian's Funeral is Robert Browning's dramatic monologue about a scholar whose devoted pupils carry him to his final resting place.

• A. Robert Frost
• B. Emily Dickinson
• C. Mark Twain
• D. Walt Whitman

Explanation: Walt Whitman wrote O Captain! My Captain! as an elegy for Abraham Lincoln after his assassination.

• A. John Milton
• B. Geoffrey Chaucer
• C. William Shakespeare
• D. Edward Gibbon

Explanation: The famous 'Seven Ages of Man' speech appears in Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It.

• A. urbanity
• B. crudity
• C. triviality
• D. sanctity

Explanation: Chaucer's humour is marked by urbanity, meaning civilised wit, social observation and a tolerant sophistication.

• A. Richard III
• B. James 1
• C. Edward III
• D. Henry II

Explanation: Chaucer held several offices under Edward III and later served Richard II, but Edward III is the expected answer in this question.

• A. Shelly
• B. De Quincey
• C. Wordsworth
• D. None of these

Explanation: Wordsworth defined poetry in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, recollected in tranquillity.