Yeats 411
Yeats used this flower to represent Ireland.
What is a rose?
The title of this poem refers to this much-feared event.
What is the second coming of Christ (Judgement Day)?
"Sailing to Byzantium" begins with this line.
What is "This is no country for old men"?
The swan caught this in his bill.
What is Leda's neck?
Yeats dedicated "When You Are Old" to this Irish actress.
Who is Maud Gonne?
What are England and Ireland?
This creature has a lion's body and the head of a man.
What is a Sphynx?
Byzantium is a symbol of these two things.
What is eternal truth and beauty?
Yeats uses this sense to descrive Leda's experiences of the swan's "dark web."
What is touch?
The theme of this poem is ___________ love.
What is unrequited?
Yeats planned to become this before he turned to literature.
What is an artist?
"Spiritus Mundi" is Latin for this.
What is world spirit?
Yeats wishes to be transformed into this kind of artifact.
What is a golden bird?
This Greek leader sacrificed his daughter to win the favor of the gods.
Who is Agamemnon?
What is pilgrim?
Yeats repeatedly asked this woman to marry him (and she repeatedly turned him down).
Who is Maud Gonne?
"The Second Coming" was written in the aftermath of this global conflict.
What is World War I?
This phrase from "Sailing to Byzantium" refers to the soul's journey.
What is the artifice of eternity?
This poem was written in 14-line format, also known as a _______________ (thanks, Shakespeare and Petrarch!).
What is a sonnet?
What is false or true?
Yeats viewed this kind of writing as a glimpse into cosmic order.
What is automatic writing?
Christ is referred to as this unpleasant thing.
What is a nightmare?
Byzantium is the ancient name for this modern city.
What is Istanbul?
According to mythology, Leda's daughter Helen was the cause of this war.
What is the Trojan War?
The poem has this rhyme scheme.
What is ABBA?