Which Famous Poet are you most like?

On behalf of National Poetry Writing Month, I figure we can all bring on the top-hats and the handlebar mustaches and emulate our favorite poets!

Take the quiz and post your results!


Edit- Thanks to @niteowl, we've got some other quizzes for you:

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Which famous modern American poet are you?







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I got 92% Whitman.

Ah, Whitman. He's like the Dumbledore of poetry, which I am not in any way - but I totes want a long beard.

:3

@Audy

I think we got the same thing.

You Scored as Walt Whitman
You are most like Walt Whitman, one of America’s most influential poets. He was a nurse during the Civil War and wrote a poem for Lincoln after his assassination. Whitman soaked himself in all of life’s experiences including homosexuality. His philosophy on life was similar to that of Hinduism and Buddhism, in that he accepted all experience, even pain and death as part of the beauty of life. His most beloved include “Song of Myself” and “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.”


Walt Whitman
92%
James Joyce
71%
William Shakespeare
63%
Ernest Hemingway
50%
Edgar Allen Poe
33%

"You Scored as Ernest Hemingway
You are most like Ernest Hemingway, one of the 20th century’s greatest writers. Hemingway was a soldier and sportsman, who fought in many foreign wars and hunted big game in Africa. He’s famous for writing about very manly men, who always got the girl and always saved the day. He killed himself in 1961. His most loved works include Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Sun also Rises."


Ernest Hemingway
71%
William Shakespeare
58%
James Joyce
42%
Walt Whitman
38%
Edgar Allen Poe
17%

I can dig that.

You Scored as Ernest Hemingway
You are most like Ernest Hemingway, one of the 20th century’s greatest writers. Hemingway was a soldier and sportsman, who fought in many foreign wars and hunted big game in Africa. He’s famous for writing about very manly men, who always got the girl and always saved the day. He killed himself in 1961. His most loved works include Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Sun also Rises.


Ernest Hemingway
83%
William Shakespeare
75%
Walt Whitman
33%
James Joyce
29%
Edgar Allen Poe
0%

I got a tie between Shakespeare and James Joyce, with the tiebreaker leading me to Shakespeare.

You are most like William Shakespeare, considered to be the greatest writer in English. Mystery surrounds his life, but scholars know he had a wife and family, who was not around much because he was in London writing and directing plays at the famous Globe Theater, where he produced plays that everyone of any background could enjoy. His sonnets show his mastery of style. His plays show his insight into human nature, as he has created some of the greatest characters in all of literature. His works are too many to list, but some include "Hamlet," "MacBeth" and "Twelfth Night."


William Shakespeare
63%
James Joyce
63%
Walt Whitman
58%
Ernest Hemingway
50%
Edgar Allen Poe
46%

Shakespeare of course

And for all those that said Hemingway, he wasn't much of a poet.

William Shakespeare: 54%

Ernest Hemingway: 54%

Walt Whitman: 50%

James Joyce: 25%

Edgar Allen Poe: 8%

Edgar Allen Poe: 65%
Walt Whitman: 20%
Ernest Hemingway:5% 
James Joyce: 5%
William Shakespeare:5%

William Shakespeare
75%
Ernest Hemingway
67%
Walt Whitman
54%
James Joyce
46%
Edgar Allen Poe
25%

James Joyce: 83%

Ernest Hemingway: 71%

Walt Whitman: 63%

William Shakespeare: 63%

Edgar Allen Poe: 38%

Agh! They spelt Edgar Allan Poe's name wrong.

Spoiler

Walt Whitman: 83%
William Shakespeare: 75%
James Joyce: 67%
Edgar ALLAN Poe: 33%
Ernest Hemingway: 17%

I think I just put things in spoilers for the sheer fun of it.

Riiiiiight. Also, where are all the women poets? Or like, most of my favorites. And there is no way I match at all with Whitman. Nope. Especially over Joyce.


William Shakespeare
71%
Walt Whitman
63%
James Joyce
46%
Ernest Hemingway
46%
Edgar Allen Poe
21%

Why are there no other names in their database? Hrmpf.
Walt Whitman
83%
James Joyce
71%
Ernest Hemingway
50%
William Shakespeare
42%
Edgar Allen Poe
25%

>.>

William Shakespeare
83%
Walt Whitman
83%
Ernest Hemingway
71%
James Joyce
63%
Edgar Allen Poe
33%

Spoiler

The Shakespeare thing is funny because we were supposed to be acting out this bit from The Tempest in class a couple of weeks ago, and I was supposed to be playing Prospero. But I hadn't learnt my part of the script, heh, and our teacher has this weird thing about us not having scripts during performances because it "breaks up your flow, children! It must be natural!"

So I'm standing in front of the class and it's all really awkward; all I'm doing is smiling sheepishly when I decide to improvise and say: "Dost thou want to build a snowman?!" as dramatically as I can.

Turns out, I wasn't the only one who hadn't bothered learning the script and out entire class ended up singing Frozen songs for the entire period.

BEST. LITERATURE. CLASS. EVUR.