The poetry of W.B. Yeats

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1. Which poem of Yeats provided the title for a book by Chinua Achebe? Sailing to Byzantium Easter 1916 The Second Coming Leda and the Swan

2. Complete the line from 'Easter 1916': All changed, changed utterly, a _________ ________ is born? Answer: (Two Words)

3. Which 2001 movie featured prominently a line from Yeats' Poem 'Stolen Child'? Lord of the Rings A.I. A Beautiful Mind Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

4. Yeat's tombstone contains the concluding lines of which of his poems? Answer: (Three Words)

5. One of Yeats' later poems, 'Gather Around Me, Parnellites' dealt with the memory of Charles Stuart Parnell. Who was Parnell? A Leader of the Easter Rebellion A contemporary poet of the time. Yeats' Father in Law A 19th century political revolutionary

6. Which bird completes the titles of 'Leda and the _____' and 'The Wild _____ at Coole'? Answer: (One Word)

7. Which of these is not a dated title of a Yeats poem? November 1918: Reflections September 1913 Coole Park, 1929 Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen

8. Which Irish folk hero and Red Branch leader's 'Fight With the Sea' was the subject of an early Yeats' poem? Finn Maccool Cuchulain Finian Countess Cathleen

9. Complete the opening line of 'Sailing to Byzantium': 'That is no country for ____ ____' Answer: (Two Words)

10. In a poem by Yeats, he catches a fish which turns into a beautiful woman who promptly runs away from him. Fenian Cuchulain Aengus Finn Maccool