Yeats

Question 0

Ideas in amongst school children.

Answer 0

Innocent beauty is taken by experience and age.
Cannot rely on pursuit of love to feel whole.
Ideas of imperfection explored by looking at mothers relationship to child
Challenge against worshiping the ideal as in children and gods not man.
Futility of chasing wisdom, life and love.
Value of education
Inability to achieve separation from self and experiences

Question 1

Key ideas in Leda and swan

Answer 1

Gyres
Passion and conquest
Violence leading to violence.

Question 2

What idea in ASC is explored through, “o chestnut-tree, great rooted blossomed, are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?”

Answer 2

Inability to achieve separation from self and experiences

Question 3

Amongst school children quote. Futility of chasing wisdom, life and love.

Answer 3

“The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, nor beauty born out of its despair, nor bleary eyed wisdom out of midnight oil”

Question 4

Quote in amongst school children. Challenge against worshiping the ideal as in children and gods not man.

Answer 4

“O self born mockers of man’s enterprise”

Question 5

Quote in ASC represents through maud that Innocent beauty is taken by experience and age.

Answer 5

“Look upon one child and wonder if she stood so at that age”

Question 6

the quote referring that he cannot rely on pursuit of love to feel whole.

Answer 6

“It seemed that our two natures blend into a sphere from youthful sympathy or else to alter Plato’s parable into the yolk and white of one shell”.

Question 7

O self born mockers of man’s enterprise”. “the uncertainty of his setting off.”

Answer 7

explores Ideas of imperfection explored by looking at mothers relationship to child

Question 8

What Idea from Yeats is explored in “how can we know the dancer from the dance.”

Answer 8

Inability to achieve separation from self and experiences

Question 11

Quote that uses onomatopoeia to describe the impermanence of love as well as explore ideas about aging

Answer 11

“Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled.”

Question 12

What ideas does this quote show “Nodding by the fire”

Answer 12

Idea of loosing your qualities In old age

Question 13

What quote represents the truth Yeats sees behind love. (Love is fleeting as most only love the looks.

Answer 13

“How many loved your moments of glad grace and loved your beauty with love false or true,”

Question 15

Quote References the fall of troy and idea of gyres.

Answer 15

“A shudder in the loins engenders there the broken wall, the burning roof and tower and Agamemnon dead.”

Question 16

Quote that uses animal imagery that references Leda and Zeus as well as idea of passion and conquest.

Answer 16

“Thighs caressed by the dark webs”. This imagery is further shown in “breast upon breast” and “great wings beating.

Question 17

Ideas in Easter 1916

Answer 17

Irish nationalism
Martyrdom
Nature of change
A understanding of the inaction of Yeats himself

Question 18

Quotes that represent Irish nationalism

Answer 18

“For England may keep faith for all that is done and said we know their dream; enough to know what they dreamed and are dead;”
“Wherever green is worn”
“MacDonagh and MacBride and Connolly and Pearse”

Question 19

Quotes that represent idea of martyrdom

Answer 19

“All changed, changed utterly: a terrible beauty is born”(repeated throughout the poem)
“Stone in the midst of all”
“Was it needless death after all?”
“He too has resigned his part in the casual comedy”
Use of past tense in the poem refers time when things were different.

Question 20

Quotes that describe Yeats and by extension Irish inaction over the issue of imperialism.

Answer 20

“I have passed with a nod of the head or polite meaningless words, or have lingered awhile and said polite meaningless words,”
“Are changed utterly a terrible beauty is born”
“Wherever green is worn”
Use of present tense in final stanza shows the understanding that Yeats comes to.

Question 21

Ideas in an Irish airman foresees his death

Answer 21

Irish nationalism
World war 1
Futility of war
The situation of Ireland

Question 22

Quotes to show Irish nationalism (IAFHD)

Answer 22

“My country is Kiltartan cross my country men Kiltartan poor”

“Those I fight I do not hate those I guard I do not love”

Question 23

(IAFHD) quotes that shows futility of war

Answer 23

“Those I fight I do not hate those I guard I do not love.”

“No likely end could bring them loss or leave them happier than before.”

Question 24

Situation of Ireland (IAFHD)

Answer 24

“My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor”
“No likely end could bring them loss or leave them happier than before”
“Nor law nor duty bade me fight”

Question 31

Ideas in when you are old.

Answer 31

Contrast between looks and true love.

Idea of ageing

Question 33

Which quote represents the idea of true love being above looks.

Answer 33

“Loved the sorrows of your changing face.”

Question 36

Quotes in Leda And The Swan that uses dominating imagery to describe idea of passion and conquest.

Answer 36

“Mastered by brute blood of the air,”