Poetry quiz: Name the poem from one line.

Can You Guess the Poem From a Single Line? Take Our Quiz.

Can You Guess the Poem From a Single Line? Take Our Quiz.

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June 24 2015 3:20 PM

Can You Guess the Poem From a Single Line? Take Our Quiz.

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Clockwise from top left: Walt Whitman, Robert Lowell, Virginia Woolf, Yusef Komunyakaa, Adrienne Rich, Langston Hughes, Denise Levertov.

Photo illustration by Slate. Photos via Wikimedia Commons.

O Slate quiz takers! We’ve challenged you to guess the pop song from its first second and the painting from one eye. Now we want to know whether you can deduce the poem from a single line. Sound easy? Not so fast. It turns out that a lot of versifiers like to write about the same things, including love, birds, and art itself. Can you untangle your Levine from your Levertov, your Yeats from your Keats? Take our quiz and find out!

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Chris Kirk is a web developer at New York magazine and Slate’s former interactives editor. Follow him on Twitter.

Katy Waldman is a Slate staff writer.