Female Poets Quiz

Poem Title	Name of Poet	When She Lived
Not Waving But Drowning		1902 - 1971
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers		1929 -
Lady Lazarus		1932 - 1963
We Real Cool		1917 - 2000
Cigarettes And Whiskey And Wild, Wild Women		1928 - 1974
You Fit Into Me		1939 -
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings		1928 -
Ample make this bed		1830 - 1886
Resume (Razors pain you, Rivers are damp)		1893 - 1967

Poem Title	Name of Poet	When She Lived
Homage to My Hips		1936 - 2010
Her Blue Body Everything We Know		1944 -
Goblin Market		1830 - 1894
First Fig (My candle burns at both ends)		1892 - 1950
The Disappointment		1640 - 1689
To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century		1913 - 1980
Lady Freedom Among Us		1952 -
Hymn to Aphrodite		circa 630 - 612 BC - circa 570 BC
Aurora Leigh		1806 - 1861

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Female Poets Quiz

by kthxbai

Created Mar 25, 2010 in Literature
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	kthxbai:	Mar 25th, 2010 at 19:30 GMT	2 points
	I was aiming for a range of how well known the poets are (without being too obscure) and a bit of a range how well the poems are associated with each poet. I'd appreciate any feedback about what I included, or what I missed.

	RebeccaAMax:	Mar 25th, 2010 at 22:43 GMT	2 points
	Elizabeth Bishop?

	Triffid:	Mar 25th, 2010 at 22:49 GMT	5 points
	Half of them I've never heard of, and two or three more I have, but didn't know they were also poets. You could include the current UK Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy.

	VivaGloria:	Mar 25th, 2010 at 23:00 GMT	4 points
	How about Jenny Joseph - she wrote the poem Warning (when I am an old woman, I shall wear purple)

	Pit_trout:	Mar 26th, 2010 at 18:44 GMT	1 point
	I was sorry not to see Anna Akhmatova, Anais Nin, or Christina Rossetti. But I love the selection you have made, and that there's a range of well-known-ness.

	kthxbai:	Mar 26th, 2010 at 19:26 GMT	1 point
	Thanks for all the suggestions. I did consider Anna Akhmatova but she didn't make the final list. Christina Rossetti is on there - Goblin Market. @VivaGloria - Thanks, I'm familiar with that poem but never knew who wrote it.

	samivel:	Jul 28th, 2010 at 04:56 GMT	1 point
	I think Maya Angelou should be on the quiz for one of her poems, not her first volume of autobiography, and Barrett Browning should be an acceptable answer for the writer of Aurora Leigh. Some other poets that could be included: Amy Lowell, Elizabeth Jennings, Eavan Boland, Marianne Moore, Charlotte Mew, Charlotte Smith. Excellent to see female poets get a quiz of their own; top work! :)

	kthxbai:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 03:50 GMT	1 point
	@samivel - Glad you liked the quiz. I added Barrett Browning as an alternate answer. About the Maya Angelou choice - that is the title of the first volume of her memoirs, but she also wrote a poem with that title which came out later, in 1983, in a collection called "Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?" Here is a link to a copy of the poem. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings/

	kthxbai:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 03:53 GMT	2 points
	@Sarahbelle - I missed noticing this get picked yesterday. Thank you. I've noticed that no matter how inundated with Harry Potter quizzes the Literature section gets, you always aim for a lot of variety in the quizzes you select. I really appreciate that!

	cuttywise:	Jun 7th, 2011 at 03:49 GMT	1 point
	Really nice quiz. To me, Sharon Olds would be worthy of inclusion. Ursula K LeGuin has written a fair bit of poetry aside from being my very favorite sci-fi writer.