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Great Openings I N H O N O R O F National Poetry Month, we offer a challenge for better or verse. Can you match these opening lines (1–14) with the poets who penned them (A–N)? Give yourself a gold star if you can identify the poems. Answers on page 51. By CRAIG HAMILTON 1. April is the cruellest month … 2. Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me. 3. Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? 4. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. 5. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness … 6. in Just- spring when the world is mud- luscious … 7. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary … 8. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 9. The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day. 10. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe. 11. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? 12. When I am an old woman I shall wear purple … 13. Whose woods these are I think I know. 14. You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies … A. Maya Angelou B. Elizabeth Barrett Browning C. Lewis Carroll D. E.E. Cummings E. Emily Dickinson F. T.S. Eliot G. Robert Frost H. Allen Ginsberg I. Langston Hughes J. Jenny Joseph K. Edgar Allan Poe L. William Shakespeare M. Tupac Shakur N. Ernest Lawrence Thayer 52 cta.org