Online Test: W B Yeats: Poems
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1. "On being asked for a War Poem" is a poem by William Butler Yeats written on February 6, 1915 in response to a request by _____ that Yeats compose a political poem about World War I.
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2. The poem 'On Being Asked for a War Poem' was first published in Edith Wharton's _______ in 1916.
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3. This poem by Auden was first published in Edith Wharton's The Book of the Homeless in 1916 as "___________"
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4. When the poem 'A Reason for Keeping Silent' was later reprinted in _________, the title was changed to "On being asked for a War Poem"
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5. 'I think it better that in times like these' - what do you understand by 'times like these'?
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6. 'He has had enough of meddling who can please' - Who is this 'he'?
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7. 'A poet's mouth be silent, for in truth -     We have no gift to set a statesman right;' - What is the meaning of this line?
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8. 'A young girl in the indolence of her youth,       Or an old man upon a winter’s night.' What is the meaning of these lines?
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9. "The Second Coming" is a poem written by Irish poet W. B. Yeats in 1919, first printed in _____ (name of publication) in November _____ (year).
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10. The poem (The Second Coming) uses Christian imagery regarding the _______ and Second Coming to allegorically describe the atmosphere of ______ .
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11. The poem is also connected to the ______: In the weeks preceding Yeats's writing of the poem, his pregnant wife Georgie Hyde-Lees caught the virus and was very close to death. The highest death rates of the pandemic were among pregnant women—in some areas, they had up to a 70 percent death rate. While his wife was convalescing, he wrote "The Second Coming"
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12. Match the works influenced by the poem 'The Second Coming' with the authors:
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Chinua Achebe
Joan Didion
Peter De Vries
Robert B Parker
Slouching Towards Kalamazoo
The Widening Gyre
Things Fall Apart
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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13. Match the lines with the Poem:
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The Second Coming
On Being Asked for a War poem
The ceremony of innocence is drowned
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
A young girl in the indolence of her youth
He has had enough of meddling who can please
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