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The poetry of W.B. Yeats

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The poetry of WB Yeats game quiz
"The 1923 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Yeats wrote poetry which chronicled both Ireland's rise to independence and its legend and myth. His poems have also found their way into more modern settings."

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


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'?
    Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
    Lord of the Rings
    A.I.
    A Beautiful Mind


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 contemporary poet of the time.
    A Leader of the Easter Rebellion
    A 19th century political revolutionary
    Yeats' Father in Law


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?
    Coole Park, 1929
    November 1918: Reflections
    September 1913
    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
    Countess Cathleen
    Finian
    Cuchulain


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.
    Cuchulain
    Fenian
    Finn Maccool
    Aengus

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