Bird Quiz Answers

1. Robert Lowell, Skunk-Hour (the missing word is 'ostrich')

2. Elizabeth Bishop, The Sandpiper

3. W B Yeats, Leda and the Swan

4. W B Yeats, The Second Coming (the missing word is 'falcon')

5. Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (the missing word is 'owl')

6. Edward Thomas, Adlestrop (the missing word is 'blackbird')

7. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (the missing word is 'albatross')

8. John Masefield, Cargoes (the missing word is 'peacocks')

9. Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover (the missing word is 'falcon')

10. Robert Browning, Home-Thoughts from Abroad (the missing word is 'chaffinch')

11. Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

12. Rudyard Kipling, The Way through the Woods (the missing word is 'dove')

13. Walter de la Mare, Silver (the missing word is 'doves')

14. Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

15. John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale

16. Carol Ann Duffy, Mrs Teresias (the missing word is 'cuckoo')

17. T S Eliot, The Waste Land (the missing word is 'gulls')

18. Wallace Stevens, Domination of Black (the missing word is 'peacocks')

19. Seamus Heaney, Turkeys Observed

20. Ted Hughes, Hawk Roosting

21. William Wordsworth, To The Cuckoo

22. Dylan Thomas, Poem in October (the missing word is 'heron')

23. Percy Bysshe Shelley, To a Skylark

24. W B Yeats, The Wild Swans at Coole

25. Daljit Nagra, Look We Have Coming to Dover! (the missing word is 'seagulls')

26. Sylvia Plath, You're (the missing word is 'dodo')

27. Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

28. Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill (the missing word is 'owls')

29. Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Eagle

30. Derek Walcott, The Schooner Flight (the missing word is 'gulls')