List of top English Literature Questions on Poetry

Read the following extract and answer the questions:
He stalks in his vivid stripes
The few steps of his cage,
On pads of velvet quiet,
In his quiet rage.
He should be lurking in shadow,
Sliding through long grass
(A Tiger in the Zoo)
 

"I heard an old religious man
But yesternight declare
That he had found a text to prove
That only God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair."
(For Anne Gregory)

Read the following poem and identify the appropriate options: 

And search 
for certain thin – 
stemmed, bubble-eyed water bugs. 
See them perch 
on dry capillary legs 
weightless 
on the ripple skin 
of a stream. 
No, not only prophets 
walk on water. This bug sits 
on a landslide of lights 
and drowns eye – 
deep 
into its tiny strip 
of sky. 

Identify the writers who are referred to as 'metaphysical poets':
In which collection did Walt Whitman's poem "Song of Myself" first appear?
Identify the title of the poem in which the following lines appear:
"He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be
One against whom there was no official complaint,
And all the reports on his conduct agree
That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint
For in everything he did he served the greater community."