“NEVERMORE!” IT MIGHT be difficult to end a poem on a more dramatic note than Edgar Allan Poe did in “The Raven.” Can you name the poets who created these ending lines? Bonus points for the name of the poem.
1. Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
2. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
3. and so cold
4. And eternity in an hour
5. Petals on a wet, black bough.
6. Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through.
ANSWERS
1. T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”
2. Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.”
3. William Carlos Williams, “This Is Just to Say.”
4. William Blake, “To see a world in a grain of sand.”
5. Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro.”
6. Sylvia Plath, “Daddy.”