Okay. Yesterday I gave you a Literary Quiz.
Here are the answers.
How did you do, hotshot?
Answers
1. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sonnet 43.”
2. anyone lived in a pretty how town
e.e. cummings, “anyone lived in a pretty how town.
3. Take up the White Man’s burden—
Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden.” This 1899 poem encouraged Americans to colonize the Philippines and other former Spanish colonies.
4. ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Lewis Carroll, “Jabberwocky” from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.
5. In Xanadu did Kubla Kahn Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Kahn.”
6. It so happens I am sick of being a man.
Pablo Neruda, “Walking Around” (trans. Robert Bly).
7. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked
Allen Ginsberg, “Howl.”
