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Some time ago, I posted a poetry quiz on here. Then forgot to post the answers. The winner, with an impressive 9 1/2 out of 10 was ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bopeepsheep. She could really have had 10, but I was quite harsh with her answer about the Big Steamers. Just to stop her getting too cocky ;)
shui_long came in as runner up, and we have an honourable mention for dr_doug whose answers made me laugh a lot (and quite often his wrong answers indicated that he knew perfectly well what the right answer was).
The answers... with tediously long commentaries behind the cuts.
1. Who recommended (or at least remembered) travelling to Glastonbury by way of Goodwin Sands, and to Birmingham by way of Beachy Head?
( The Rolling English Drunkard )
2. I grow old, I grow old. What fashion statement do intend to make?
( I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled )
3. Which incredibly implausible conveyance carried ivory, apes and peacocks, sandalwood and cedarwood and sweet white wine?
( The Quinquireme of Nineveh )
4. What, according to Kipling, will happen to you if you stop the Big Steamers?
( You will starve )
5. On the night before the dance, Mad Carew seemed in a trance And they chaffed him as they puffed at their cigars. What was Mad Carew worryied about?
( About his impending trip to steal the green eye of the little yellow god )
6. Who, or what, did John Donne deem a "busie old foole"?
( The sun )
7. The pail by the wall would be half-full of water... and what else?
( Stars )
8. What, according to WH Auden (in one of his lighter moments) can no-one hear without a quickening of the heart?
( The postman's knock )
9. My bread is sawdust mixed with straw, my jam is polish for the floor What am I?
( A church mouse )
10. What was built when twice five miles of fertile ground with walls and towers were girdled round?
( A stately pleasure dome )
If anyone cares, the subject line and cut-text of the original quiz and the subject from this post are all from Kipling's fabulous The Mary Gloster.
bopeepsheep. She could really have had 10, but I was quite harsh with her answer about the Big Steamers. Just to stop her getting too cocky ;) shui_long came in as runner up, and we have an honourable mention for dr_doug whose answers made me laugh a lot (and quite often his wrong answers indicated that he knew perfectly well what the right answer was).The answers... with tediously long commentaries behind the cuts.
1. Who recommended (or at least remembered) travelling to Glastonbury by way of Goodwin Sands, and to Birmingham by way of Beachy Head?
( The Rolling English Drunkard )
2. I grow old, I grow old. What fashion statement do intend to make?
( I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled )
3. Which incredibly implausible conveyance carried ivory, apes and peacocks, sandalwood and cedarwood and sweet white wine?
( The Quinquireme of Nineveh )
4. What, according to Kipling, will happen to you if you stop the Big Steamers?
( You will starve )
5. On the night before the dance, Mad Carew seemed in a trance And they chaffed him as they puffed at their cigars. What was Mad Carew worryied about?
( About his impending trip to steal the green eye of the little yellow god )
6. Who, or what, did John Donne deem a "busie old foole"?
( The sun )
7. The pail by the wall would be half-full of water... and what else?
( Stars )
8. What, according to WH Auden (in one of his lighter moments) can no-one hear without a quickening of the heart?
( The postman's knock )
9. My bread is sawdust mixed with straw, my jam is polish for the floor What am I?
( A church mouse )
10. What was built when twice five miles of fertile ground with walls and towers were girdled round?
( A stately pleasure dome )
If anyone cares, the subject line and cut-text of the original quiz and the subject from this post are all from Kipling's fabulous The Mary Gloster.
