The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe · Edgar Allan Poe

Poems of Youth Quiz

Sonnet—To Science, To Helen, Israfel, Spirits of the Dead, Romance, The Lake, Evening Star and Alone.

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Q1 of 10
What does Poe call Science in "Sonnet—To Science"?
Q2 of 10
Complete the lines from "To Helen": "To the glory that was Greece, / To the ..."
Q3 of 10
What does Helen hold in the window niche at the end of "To Helen"?
Q4 of 10
From what book does the description of the angel Israfel come?
Q5 of 10
What does the speaker claim at the end of "Israfel"?
Q6 of 10
What does the lonely lake awaken in the speaker of "The Lake"?
Q7 of 10
Why does the speaker of "Evening Star" turn away from the moon?
Q8 of 10
What does the cloud take the form of at the end of "Alone"?
Q9 of 10
In "Romance", what does Romance seem to the speaker in childhood?
Q10 of 10
Why did Poe say he republished his "Poems of Youth" in 1845?