Prompt 7 of 7
Name a famous poet
104 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Enheduanna— A Sumerian priestess from 2300 BC, the earliest author of any kind known by name. The first poet on record.
85 ptsDeep Cut56 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- A.E. Housman
- Adrienne Rich
- Alexander Pope
- Alexander Pushkin
- Anna Akhmatova
- Anne Sexton
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Billy Collins
- Carl Sandburg
- Carol Ann Duffy
- Catullus
- Charles Baudelaire
- Christina Rossetti
- Derek Walcott
- Du Fu
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Edward Lear
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Federico Garcia Lorca
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Hafiz
- Horace
- John Betjeman
- John Donne
- Joy Harjo
- Leonard Cohen— Published two poetry collections before he ever sang a note.
- Lewis Carroll
- Li Bai
- Louise Glück
- Marianne Moore
- Mary Oliver
- Mirza Ghalib
- Nikki Giovanni
- Ocean Vuong
- Octavio Paz
- Omar Khayyam
- Ovid
- Pam Ayres
- Petrarch
- Philip Larkin
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Rita Dove
- Robert Lowell
- Sara Teasdale
- Seamus Heaney
- Spike Milligan
- Ted Hughes
- Thomas Hardy
- Victor Hugo— Yes, the Les Misérables guy. France shelves him under poetry first.
- Virgil
- W.H. Auden
- Wallace Stevens
- Warsan Shire
- William Carlos Williams
- Wisława Szymborska
60 ptsRare26 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Alfred Tennyson
- Allen Ginsberg
- Charles Bukowski
- Dorothy Parker
- Dylan Thomas
- E.E. Cummings
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Emily Bronte
- Ezra Pound
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Goethe
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Khalil Gibran
- Matsuo Basho
- Ogden Nash
- Oscar Wilde
- Pablo Neruda
- Percy Shelley
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Robert Browning
- Robert Burns
- Rudyard Kipling
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Sappho— The poet of Lesbos, most of whose work survives only in fragments.
- William Butler Yeats
30 ptsSchooler13 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Amanda Gorman
- Dante
- John Keats
- John Milton
- Langston Hughes
- Lord Byron
- Rupi Kaur
- Shel Silverstein
- Sylvia Plath
- T.S. Eliot
- Walt Whitman
- William Blake
- William Wordsworth
15 ptsToo Clever3 answers
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- Dr. Seuss— Rhymes, technically. The cheeky answer the school expected.
- Homer— 'The original poet.' Points for the epic energy, everyone gets there.
- Rumi— The Instagram-caption poet. Beautiful, and everybody's got him bookmarked.
10 ptsPlankton5 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Emily Dickinson
- Maya Angelou
- Robert Frost
- William Shakespeare