Epitaph for famous writers
1) Here Lies the Servant of God Sub-Lieutenant in the English Navy Who Died for the Deliverance of Constantinople from the Turks-----it is epitaph for Rupert Brook and Brooke wrote another epitaph for himself:
A) Steel True, Blade Straight
B) If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England.
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England.
C) CALLED BACK
D) The passive master lent his hand,
To the vast Soul which o'er him planned
To the vast Soul which o'er him planned
Ans:B
Epitaph for Emily Dickson is.........................
A) Steel True, Blade Straight
B) If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England.
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England.
C) CALLED BACK
D) The passive master lent his hand,
To the vast Soul which o'er him planned
To the vast Soul which o'er him planned
Ans:C
Epitaph for Emerson is
A) Steel True, Blade Straight
B) If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England.
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England.
C) CALLED BACK
D) The passive master lent his hand,
To the vast Soul which o'er him planned
To the vast Soul which o'er him planned
Ans:D
Epitaph for F. Scot Fitzgerald is ---
A) So we beat our boats against
The current, borne back
Ceaselessly into the past”
—The Great Gatsby
The current, borne back
Ceaselessly into the past”
—The Great Gatsby
B) “I Had a Lover’s Quarrel with the World”
C) “Good friends, for Jesus’ sake, forbear
To dig the dirt inclosed here.
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
But curst be he that moves my bones.”
To dig the dirt inclosed here.
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
But curst be he that moves my bones.”
D) Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality.
Ans:A
Epitaph for Arthur canon Doyle is
A) Steel True, Blade Straight
B) If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England.
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England.
C) CALLED BACK
D) The passive master lent his hand,
To the vast Soul which o'er him planned
To the vast Soul which o'er him planned
Ans:A
Another famous historical figure who wrote his own epitaph was William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Shakespeare’s tombstone inscription, which has been widely debated, suggests that a visitor might be cursed if he moved Shakespeare’s bones. One theory is that Shakespeare wished to scare away grave robbers; another is that as cemeteries filled, he wished to deter the custom of moving existing interments to make room for others. (See his grave from Holy Trinity Churchyard in Stratford-upon-Avon, England Shakespeare wrote:
A) So we beat our boats against
The current, borne back
Ceaselessly into the past”
—The Great Gatsby
The current, borne back
Ceaselessly into the past”
—The Great Gatsby
B) “I Had a Lover’s Quarrel with the World”
C) “Good friends, for Jesus’ sake, forbear
To dig the dirt inclosed here.
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
But curst be he that moves my bones.”
To dig the dirt inclosed here.
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
But curst be he that moves my bones.”
D) Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality.
Ans:C
Epitaph for Rupert brook is.........
A) So we beat our boats against
The current, borne back
Ceaselessly into the past”
—The Great Gatsby
The current, borne back
Ceaselessly into the past”
—The Great Gatsby
B) “I Had a Lover’s Quarrel with the World”
C) “Good friends, for Jesus’ sake, forbear
To dig the dirt inclosed here.
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
But curst be he that moves my bones.”
To dig the dirt inclosed here.
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
But curst be he that moves my bones.”
D) Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality.
Ans:B
Epitaph for Apra Behn is ........................
A) So we beat our boats against
The current, borne back
Ceaselessly into the past”
—The Great Gatsby
The current, borne back
Ceaselessly into the past”
—The Great Gatsby
B) “I Had a Lover’s Quarrel with the World”
C) “Good friends, for Jesus’ sake, forbear
To dig the dirt inclosed here.
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
But curst be he that moves my bones.”
To dig the dirt inclosed here.
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
But curst be he that moves my bones.”
D) Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality.
Ans:D
Epitaph for Alexander pope is--................
A) For one who would not be buried in Westminster Abbey. Heroes and Kings! your distance keep: Inpeace let one poor Poet sleep; Who never flatter'd folks like you: Let Horace blush and Virgil too.
B) Here lies (expecting the second coming cf our Saviour Christ Jesus) the body of ------, the Prince of Poets in his time, whose divine spirit needs no other witness than the works ...
c) On the day he was Beheaded In Old Palace Yard, Westminster Oct. 29th. Anno Dom. 1618 Reader should you reflect on his errors Remember his many virtues ...
D) I am to let thee know. Donne's Body only lies below ; For, could the grave his Soul comprise, Earth wouldbe richer than the Skies !
Ans:A
Epitaph for Edmund spencer is--
A) For one who would not be buried in Westminster Abbey. Heroes and Kings! your distance keep: Inpeace let one poor Poet sleep; Who never flatter'd folks like you: Let Horace blush and Virgil too.
B) Here lies (expecting the second coming cf our Saviour Christ Jesus) the body of ------, the Prince of Poets in his time, whose divine spirit needs no other witness than the works ...
c) On the day he was Beheaded In Old Palace Yard, Westminster Oct. 29th. Anno Dom. 1618 Reader should you reflect on his errors Remember his many virtues ...
D) I am to let thee know. Donne's Body only lies below ; For, could the grave his Soul comprise, Earth wouldbe richer than the Skies !
Ans:B
Epitaph for Walter Religh is--
A) For one who would not be buried in Westminster Abbey. Heroes and Kings! your distance keep: Inpeace let one poor Poet sleep; Who never flatter'd folks like you: Let Horace blush and Virgil too.
B) Here lies (expecting the second coming cf our Saviour Christ Jesus) the body of ------, the Prince of Poets in his time, whose divine spirit needs no other witness than the works ...
c) On the day he was Beheaded In Old Palace Yard, Westminster Oct. 29th. Anno Dom. 1618 Reader should you reflect on his errors Remember his many virtues ...
D) I am to let thee know. Donne's Body only lies below ; For, could the grave his Soul comprise, Earth wouldbe richer than the Skies !
Ans:c
9) In death, though, soul and body are destined to be separated, and this is the theme of John Donne’s great epitaph............................
A) Reader, I am to let thee know,
Donne’s body only lies below;
For could the grave his soul comprise,
Earth would be richer than the skies.
Donne’s body only lies below;
For could the grave his soul comprise,
Earth would be richer than the skies.
B) Here lies the body of Jonathan Swift, Professor of Holy Theology,
Dean of this cathedral church,
where fierce indignation can lacerate his heart no longer.
Go, traveller,
and, if you can, imitate one who with his utmost strength protected liberty.
Dean of this cathedral church,
where fierce indignation can lacerate his heart no longer.
Go, traveller,
and, if you can, imitate one who with his utmost strength protected liberty.
C) Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
D) Heroes and Kings your distance keep;
In peace let one poor poet sleep,
Who never flattered folks like you;
Let Horace blush and Virgil too.
In peace let one poor poet sleep,
Who never flattered folks like you;
Let Horace blush and Virgil too.
Ans:A
10) Shelley, the Romantic poet who drowned in 1822, has, aptly, a quotation from Shakespeare’s The Tempest as his epitaph (a quotation that introduced the phrase ‘sea-change’ into the language):
A) Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
B) It reads simply: ‘Here lies One whose Name was writ in Water.’
C) Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
D) Cast a cold eye
On life, on death
Horseman, pass by!
On life, on death
Horseman, pass by!
Ans:A
The epitaph of John Keats (1795-1821), composed by the poet himself, reflects his anxieties over his posthumous reputation and his doubts about whether his poetry will last.
A) Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
B) It reads simply: ‘Here lies One whose Name was writ in Water.’
C) Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
D) Cast a cold eye
On life, on death
Horseman, pass by!
On life, on death
Horseman, pass by!
Ans:B
Conrad (1857-1924), who served in the British navy before he became a ground-breaking modernist novelist, took his epitaph from Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene:
A) Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
B) It reads simply: ‘Here lies One whose Name was writ in Water.’
C) Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
D) Cast a cold eye
On life, on death
Horseman, pass by!
On life, on death
Horseman, pass by!
Ans:C
Yeats (1865-1939) was memorably memorialised in verse by W. H. Auden, who wrote ‘In Memory of W. B. Yeats’ in 1939, shortly after the Irish poet’s death. Yeats himself adopted this three-line epigram as epitaph:
A) Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
B) It reads simply: ‘Here lies One whose Name was writ in Water.’
C) Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
D) Cast a cold eye
On life, on death
Horseman, pass by!
On life, on death
Horseman, pass by!
Ans:D
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