Test your knowledge of modern poets

FinsburyParkCarrots
FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
edited September 2006 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5301860.stm


Yes, I did get 10 out of 10. So should you. :cool:
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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    WOW. i am shocked i got 7 out of 10. shows ya that mutliple choice tests really don't test true knowledge. i am a good guesser. ;)
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  • DopeBeastie
    DopeBeastie Posts: 2,513
    i'd only pass this quiz if it were on Radar(Baba)O'Reily


    :D


    who da heck is betjeman, and how you gonna put a j after a t anyway?
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    'Tis all in good fun. No doubt someone will say, why wasn't the freedom-poetry of imprisoned three-legged dissident Shagyerwifeski Kaplinkenplonken included in that quiz? But then, we'd have to guess the answers:

    Q In 1956, what was the name of Kaplinkenplonken's epic fifty-eight volume poetic indictment of the Loduvshyte invasion of Ninconpoopula?

    1 Ah Just Pass The Jay This Way, an' Dig Duh Crazy Beat

    2 Mein Underpantz - A Parable, For Change

    3 The Life and Times of Lady Clamydia Scrote


    :D
  • DopeBeastie
    DopeBeastie Posts: 2,513
    we smokin scrote underpants?


    i'm so in....

    ....to watchin''''


    :D
  • grooveamatic
    grooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    PastaNazi wrote:
    i'd only pass this quiz if it were on Radar(Baba)O'Reily


    :D


    who da heck is betjeman, and how you gonna put a j after a t anyway?

    Betjeman rules! I discovered him through my reading of Larkin--Larkin talked about him alot. Look up Betjeman's "Senex"--you don't get much better than that!
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  • grooveamatic
    grooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    I got 9 out of 10, btw. Didn't know the one about The Scaffold.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    He's probably Britain's most popular poet of the twentieth century. He's often dismissed as light, populist, and as a rhymster, but I like his work.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    grooveamatic wrote:
    I got 9 out of 10, btw. Didn't know the one about The Scaffold.

    Mike McCartney (Paul's brother) was also in the band. His pseudonym was Mike McGear.
  • grooveamatic
    grooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    It's surprising how few American's know of Betjeman. I had to order his Collected from Amazon, it's not in any bookstores. Does he even have an American publisher? I had never heard of the publisher, and the price was only listed in pounds.

    I don't think he's overly light. Hell, half his poems are about churches. How light can that be?
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  • grooveamatic
    grooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    And I didn't even know Macca had a brother. And I color myself a Beatles fan, too.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwTh3_qG6hs

    McGough on the left, John Gorman in the middle, and Mike McCartney/McGear on the right.

    When Gorman left, the other two did an album called "McGough and McGear". Hendrix played on two tracks, "Ex-Art Student", and "So Much."
  • grooveamatic
    grooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwTh3_qG6hs

    McGough on the left, John Gorman in the middle, and Mike McCartney/McGear on the right.

    When Gorman left, the other two did an album called "McGough and McGear". Hendrix played on two tracks, "Ex-Art Student", and "So Much."

    My connection is much too slow to productively take part in YouTube, I'm afraid. :(
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    i knew going in that was going to be bad. at least i got the wilde question correct. plus 4 others. poets aren't really my thing. yes, that is my excuse. :)
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  • depopulationINC
    depopulationINC Posts: 2,074
    I got #2 Wrong...forgot about the stint as a film critic. :(
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  • Ali
    Ali Posts: 2,621
    HI finns...just wanted to say hi and see if you needed anything:)

    Bought a new book vintage 1950 on POe's works,
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    good luck to you my friend,
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    I'll just wait tables and put out some chapbooks.

    ps tony blair is kinda hot too:D
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Ali wrote:
    HI finns...just wanted to say hi and see if you needed anything:)


    good luck to you my friend,
    I wish you the best my younger genious,

    I'm older than you, lassie! ;)
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Ali wrote:
    ps tony blair is kinda hot too:D

    thank goodness someone else thinks so. i was starting to think i was nuts.
    pity his policies suck. :)
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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,390
    3/10, of course I dont' know the work of the main B man, whoever he is, and the newspaper question was a trick question for those of us over here :)
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  • asphalt
    asphalt Posts: 113
    doggerel
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Here's info on Betjeman. I think his poetic output is too easily dismissed as light verse.

    http://www.johnbetjeman.com/
    http://www.johnbetjeman.com/oldhome.htm
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Betjemanhttp://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/R/real_lives/betjeman.html

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