Identify The Poet Part 2 Quiz

Identify The Poet Part 2 Quiz returns with fresh stories and poetic moments that go beyond well-known lines. Did you know Robert Burns once turned down the chance to become a full-time poet because he planned to move to Jamaica to work on a sugar plantation? Luckily, his friends convinced him to publish instead. That simple encouragement gave the world “Auld Lang Syne” and so much more. This famous poets quiz leans into those turning points we rarely hear about. Poets often lived ordinary lives shaped by unexpected choices like anyone else. A poet trivia quiz that looks beyond the page can reveal how close we came to never reading some of the most beloved verses ever written.

Identify The Poet Part 2

Once described as the “poet of the people,” this bard wandered lonely as a cloud and turned the Lake District into poetry.

Robert Burns

William Wordsworth

John Keats

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This tormented genius composed some of his best work while living in a tuberculosis ward and dreaming of Grecian urns and nightingales.

Percy Shelley

Lord Byron

John Keats

Thomas Gray

An unbaptized Catholic who married secretly and wrote verse dramas while also being Queen Elizabeth I’s favourite playwright.

William Shakespeare

Robert Burns

Ben Jonson

John Donne

Exiled from his homeland, this fiery Romantic crafted epic verses while scandalizing society with his lifestyle. His name echoes rebellion.

John Keats

W. B. Yeats

Lord Byron

Percy Shelley

He stopped by woods on snowy evenings and reflected on walls between neighbors. Rural New England shaped his soul.

Dylan Thomas

Walt Whitman

T. S. Eliot

Robert Frost

This satirical wit wore green carnations and turned pain into prose. He penned "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" in exile.

Rupert Brooke

Oscar Wilde

W. H. Auden

Thomas Hardy

This WWI soldier-poet’s romantic verses turned bitter after he saw the trenches up close — he died just before the Armistice.

Rupert Brooke

Siegfried Sassoon

Wilfred Owen

Edward Thomas

This poet, a recluse who rarely left her house in Amherst, spun entire universes out of a single room with short, slanted lines and dashes.

Emily Dickinson

Emily Bronte

Sylvia Plath

Anne Sexton

Known for her confessional poetry and tragic end, this poet placed her head in an oven but left behind verses that still burn with intensity.

Anne Sexton

Adrienne Rich

Elizabeth Bishop

Sylvia Plath

This Chilean diplomat wrote with passion about love, politics, and injustice — his verses earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971.

Octavio Paz

Pablo Neruda

Jorge Luis Borges

César Vallejo

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Sample Questions from This Quiz

Once described as the “poet of the people,” this bard wandered lonely as a cloud and turned the Lake District into poetry.
This tormented genius composed some of his best work while living in a tuberculosis ward and dreaming of Grecian urns and nightingales.
An unbaptized Catholic who married secretly and wrote verse dramas while also being Queen Elizabeth I’s favourite playwright.
Exiled from his homeland, this fiery Romantic crafted epic verses while scandalizing society with his lifestyle. His name echoes rebellion.
He stopped by woods on snowy evenings and reflected on walls between neighbors. Rural New England shaped his soul.

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