John Clare: Poetry Quizzes

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1 In what century did John Clare write?
Eighteenth

Seventeenth

Nineteenth

Twentieth
2 Which literary movement is John Clare usually associated with?
Romantic

Neo-classicist

Gothic

Modernist
3 When did Clare first develop a love for poetry?
During school as a child

From his parents, who were avid readers

From his first girlfriend, Mary Joyce

When he moved to London for college
4 What did Clare do as a teenager?
Lounge around and write poems

Attend school

Work as a field laborer

Work in a factory
5 Who was John Taylor?
A friend who introduced Clare to his first publisher

Clare's first therapist

The first publisher of Clare's poems

A wealthy uncle who rescued Clare from the countryside
6 Which of the following is NOT true of both Clare and the other Romantics
Both Clare and the other Romantics depicted experiences of loss of self

Both Clare and the other Romantics often wrote about nature

Both Clare and the other Romantics were born in the countryside

Both Clare and the other Romantics were interested in spiritual experience
7 What was enclosure?
The erection of walls around homes

The development of an industrial city

The division of large landholdings into individual farms

The seizure of common land by private landowners
8 How did Clare depict the countryside?
As a beautiful retreat from the stresses of the city

As both beautiful and related to broader social and economic problems

As a deceptively beautiful place that was ugly at its heart

As somewhere he couldn't wait to escape
9 Which of the following was not a negative impact of enclosure?
It stripped many small farmers of their way of life

It forced many people to flee to the cities for low-paying work

It made farming less efficient

It destroyed habitat for other creatures
10 Which of the following is NOT a frequent topic of John Clare's poetry?
The natural world

Country sports

Romantic love

City life
11 Which of Clare's books was based on an earlier book by a famous English poet?
Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery

The Shepherd's Calendar

The Rural Muse

The Village Minstrel
12 Which of Clare's books was the most commercially successful?
The Rural Muse

The Shepherd's Calendar

Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery

The Village Minstrel
13 Which part of Clare's career is most beloved by critics for its especially experimental use of language?
His early career

His middle career

His late career

Clare was never experimental in his use of langauge
14 Where did Clare spend the final 25 years of his life?
His family home

London

An isane asylum

Prison
15 Which of the following is NOT true of Clare's later poetry?
It sometimes dealt powerfully with big ideas like grief and the loss of the self

It was frequently directed towards his childhood crush, Mary Joyce

It was often more conventional than his early work

It was more attentive to the natural world than his earlier work
16 Which aspects of the natural world did the Romantic poets usually write about?
They were more interested in writing about the city

Awe-inspiring landscapes like mountains or the sea

Aspects they knew well, like the countryside

Aspects they had only heard described, like the deserts of the American southwest
17 Why is Clare's poetry sometimes referred to as "pastoral"?
It focuses on the humble, ordinary details of the countryside

It condemns the countryside as backwards

It erases the practicalities of peasant life

It focuses on the day-to-day life of shepherds
18 What does it mean for a poem to be written using heroic couplets?
Any poem written as a series of rhymed couplets

A poem written in couplets and describing an epic battle

A poem written in couplets which do not rhyme

A poem written as a series of rhymed couplets, with both lines being in iambic pentameter
19 Which metrical form did Clare use most frequently?
Iambic, or pairs of one unstressed and one stressed syllable

Trochee, or pairs of one stressed and one unstressed syllable

Spondee, or two stressed syllables in a row

Clare did not typically use metrical forms
20 Which of the following poems does NOT discuss love between partners?
Love Lives Beyond the Tomb

The Yellowhammer's Nest

First Love

Autumn
21 Which of the following employs a distant tone?
Love Lives Beyond the Tomb

The Badger

First Love

I Am!
22 Which of the following does NOT contain religious themes?
Autumn

I Am!

The Badger

Love Lives Beyond the Tomb
23 Which of the following poems features largely conventional depictions of the natural world?
The Yellowhammer's Nest

The Badger

Autumn

Love Lives Beyond the Tomb
24 Which of the following most clearly embodies the traits of sublime poetry?
The Yellowhammer's Nest

Love Lives Beyond the Tomb

The Badger

Autumn
25 Which of the following does NOT see the world partially from an animal's perspective?
The Badger

Clock a Clay

Autumn

The Yellowhammer's Nest

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