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What country is WB Yeats from?
Ireland
Name all five of the poems we have studied by WB Yeats.
The Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Wild Swans at Coole, An Irish Airman Foresees his Death, Easter 1916, September 1913, Sailing to Byzantium
Finish this quote: I hear lake water lapping...
With low sounds by the shore
Finish that quote: I know that I shall meet
My fate
Finish that quote: All changed,
Changed utterly
Finish that quote: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,
It's with O'Leary in the grave.
What technique is used in the phrase "A terrible beauty is born" – Easter 1916
Oxymoron
What is the methodical creature referred to here: "This man had kept a school and rode our wingèd horse" – Easter 1916
Pegasus
What is the technique used here: "Those I fight I do not hate, Those I guard I do not love"
Anaphora
The Lake Isle of Innisfree - What is the central theme of Yeats' desire to retreat to Innisfree?
Escapism / Search for inner peace / restorative power of nature
Wild Swans at Coole How does Yeats contrast the natural world and the human experience in this poem?
Swans - in unity.
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death What are the motivations for the airman’s decision to fight, and what theme does this reveal?
'A lonely impulse of delight' = futility of war / sense of duty
How does Yeats express his disillusionment with contemporary Irish society in September 1913?
The refrain 'Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.' - Disdain / contempt at their concern with money and beauty (Lillian Russell)
Who does Yeats remember and admire in Easter 1916?
Constance, Padraig Pearse, John MacBride, Thomas MacDonagh, James Connolly
Who was Yeats unrequited love interest?
Maud Gonne
What quote represents Yeats’ longing for peace in "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"?
"And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow"
