CSET Practice Test On Poetry and Why Some People Pass and Some Do Not

5. Lived between 1914 and 1953. Welsh poet who is widely considered one of the greatest twentieth-century poets writing in English. His most famous poem is Do not go gentle into

that good night.

A. Dante

B. Carl Sandburg

C. Dylan Thomas

D. A.E. Housman

6. Was the first African-American Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Was attacked by other African-American writers for his moderate views and for not using his poetry to further the cause of the Black Arts Movement. He believed in the oneness of humanity and refused to support those who urged separation of the races. He argued that to label any Negro writer a “spokesman for his race” places him in a kind of literary ghetto where the standards applied to other writers are not likely to be applied to him. He asserted that there is only good poetry and bad poetry and that it should not be judged by any political or racial criteria. He insisted that he was not a negro poet, but rather a poet who was negro. His most famous poem is Those Winter Sundays.

A. Robert Hayden

B. Walt Whitman

C. Edward Lear

D. Margaret Atwood

7. Lived between 1917 and 2000. She was an African-American poet. She was the first African-American to receive a Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for her book of poetry called Annie Allen. Her poetry is rooted in the poor and mostly African-American South Side of Chicago. She was a leader of the Black Arts movement. Her most famous poem is We Real Cool.

A. Gwendolyn Brooks

B. Robert Frost

C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

D. Emily Dickinson