Free Poetry MCQs with Answers

• A. P.B. Shelley
• B. John Keats
• C. John Milton
• D. William Blake

Explanation: John Milton wrote both Paradise Lost, on the Fall of Man, and Paradise Regained, on Christ’s temptation.

• A. Tennyson
• B. Browning
• C. Keats
• D. T. S. Eliot

Explanation: “Andrea del Sarto” is a dramatic monologue by Robert Browning, spoken by the Renaissance painter known as the “faultless painter.”…

• A. The Wasteland
• B. The Hollow men
• C. East Coker
• D. Prufrock

Explanation: The famous opening, “April is the cruellest month,” belongs to T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.

• A. Shelley
• B. John Ashbery
• C. Sylvia Plath
• D. Ted Hughes

Explanation: “Wind” is a well-known poem by Ted Hughes, presenting the wind as a powerful and destructive force.

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

Explanation: Geoffrey Chaucer is called the Father of English Poetry because he established English as a major literary language through works such as…

• A. an elegy
• B. a collection of elegies
• C. a lyric
• D. a dramatic lyric

Explanation: In Memoriam A.H.H. is Tennyson’s sustained elegy for his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, expressing grief and developing toward spiritual…

• A. Shelley
• B. Coleridge
• 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…

• A. Alexander Pope
• B. Henry Fielding
• C. Thomas Hardy
• D. John Milton

Explanation: John Milton wrote “Lycidas,” a pastoral elegy mourning the death of Edward King.

• A. Sensory images
• B. Dramatic Monologues
• C. Narrative ballads
• D. Blank Verse

Explanation: Robert Browning is especially famous for the dramatic monologue, in which a single speaker reveals character while addressing a silent…

• A. Keats
• B. Shelley
• C. Wordsworth
• D. All

Explanation: Subjective elements, such as personal emotion, imagination, and individual response to nature, appear strongly in the poetry of Keats…

• A. 1340 AD
• B. 1341 AD
• C. 1342 AD
• D. 1343 AD

Explanation: Geoffrey Chaucer is generally placed as having been born around 1340, although the exact date is not certain.

• A. 102
• B. 154
• C. 163
• D. 194

Explanation: Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, conventionally numbered from Sonnet 1 to Sonnet 154.

• A. True
• B. False
• C. both A and B
• D. none of these

Explanation: Keats’s broad appeal rests chiefly on his sensuous language, love of beauty, and treatment of imagination, not primarily on readers’…

• A. The representative poet of Victorian Age
• B. The representative poet of Romantic Age
• C. The best nature poet
• D. None of these

Explanation: Alfred, Lord Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate and is widely regarded as the representative poet of the Victorian Age.

• A. John Donne
• B. John Dryden
• C. Andrew Marvell
• D. Alexander Pope

Explanation: Andrew Marvell was associated with Milton and served as his assistant during the Commonwealth period.

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

Explanation: Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” a narrative poem about the disastrous cavalry charge during the Crimean…

• A. Tennyson
• B. Arnold
• C. Shelley
• D. Browning

Explanation: Percy Bysshe Shelley was a leading second-generation Romantic poet, known for poems such as “Ode to the West Wind.” Tennyson and Browning…

• A. Parody
• B. Elegy
• C. Romance
• D. Sonnet

Explanation: Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock is a mock-epic poem that humorously treats a trivial social incident in the grand style of epic…

• A. Keats
• B. Shelley
• C. Jane Austine
• D. Charles Lamb

Explanation: “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty” appears near the close of John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” The quotation expresses the poem’s…

• A. We Are Seven (Wordsworth)
• B. Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)
• C. Prisoner of Chillon (Byron)
• D. None of theseRead Classic Poetry

Explanation: These lines occur in Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol, where the poem reflects on punishment, suffering, and the moral laws…