Featured J!Buzz Clues & Categories 04.05.2023 Celebrate National Poetry Month With These Clues From the Jeopardy! Vault National Poetry Month is celebrated each April by poetry lovers across the U.S. since its introduction by the Academy of American Poets in 1996. In honor of the month-long event, which highlights the influence poetry has made in American culture and beyond, we’ve selected the following clues to test your literary knowledge from the Jeopardy! Vault. *Quiz Rules: Respondents do not have to answer in the form of a question. Moderate spelling errors will receive consideration. No prizes, but big-time bragging rights.* POETS Edmund Spenser coined the word "blatant" to describe a beast in this allegorical poem Submit POETS & POETRY This Matthew Arnold poem begins, "The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair" Submit BRITISH POETRY Tennyson wrote "Crossing the Bar" at age 80 & made this request to all future publishers Submit THE BOTTOM LINE Sandburg finished a poem titled for this city, "player with railroads and freight handler to the nation" Submit AMERICAN POETRY A long poem by Hart Crane was inspired by this structure seen from his apartment window Submit HAIKU ABOUT THE POET "Aurora Leigh", whoa! / 19th century lady / Let me count the ways Submit 200 YEARS OF WALT WHITMAN Whitman's 1865 poems "O Captain! My Captain!" & "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" are elegies for this hero of his Submit POETIC LICENSE This poet whose first name was Algernon was described as the "libidinous laureate of a pack of satyrs" Submit POETS & POETRY John Dryden said this other 17th century man "affects the metaphysics"; in fact he's the leading metaphysical poet Submit AMERICAN POETRY In a Marianne Moore poem, "the lost battalion's gallant bird" is one of these title message carriers Submit POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK Byron: "She walks in ____, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies" Submit POETS ON POETS Longfellow began a poem about this earlier poet, "Tuscan, that wanderest through the realms of gloom" Submit POET-POURRI The August 1913 Poetry Magazine had "I Heard a Flute" by Ruth Gaines &, more famously, this Joyce Kilmer poem Submit POETS & POETRY Editor Harriet Monroe said this man "has an eccentric system of typography which... intrudes itself irritatingly" Submit Jeopardy! Clues You May Also Like Clues & Categories 06.01.2023 Celebrate Pride Month With These Clues Clues & Categories 02.01.2023 Celebrate Black History Month With These Jeopardy! Clues Clues & Categories 03.01.2024 See How Well You Know Your Women’s History With These Clues
