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Poetry quiz: Can you match the poet to the poem?

Taylor Weidman – Monitor staff

April is National Poetry Month. Celebrate by testing your knowledge of these well known English-language poets. How many of these verses can you match to the poet who penned them?

  • By Monitor staff

1. Which American poet wrote the following lines?

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,

And what I assume you shall assume,

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Allen Ginsberg

William Carlos Williams

Walt Whitman

Shel Silverstein

Brooklyn poet Walt Whitman included these joyous lines in "Song of Myself," one of 12 poems in his self-published 1855 edition of "Leaves of Grass."

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