ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
‘Mending Wall’ and ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ are two poems written by-
A
Robert Frost
B
Walt Whitman
C
Emily Dickinson
D
None
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Robert Frost wrote at least 100 poems, according to various sources listing his works. He also wrote several collections containing these poems, though some of these poems appear in several volumes.

Detailed explanation-2: -Robert Frost’s most famous poems included “The Gift Outright, ” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, ” “Birches, ” “Mending Wall, ” “The Road Not Taken, ” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

Detailed explanation-3: -The poem is written in iambic tetrameter in the Rubaiyat stanza created by Edward FitzGerald, who adopted the style from Hakim Omar Khayyam, the 12th-century Persian poet and mathematician.

Detailed explanation-4: -"The Mending Wall” is, like many of Frost’s poems, written in blank verse. Blank verse is a style of poetry that includes unrhyming lines of five iambs each line.

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