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On the marble table-top.” This line is taken from which of the following poem of Yeats?
(A) Byzantium
(B) Blood and the Moon
(C) Coole Park
(D) Vacillation
Question’s Answer: Vacillation
W.B.Y Yeats books
The symbols used by W.B. Yeats are difficult to understand because:
(A) They are too intricate
(B) They are derived from Scottish legends
(C) They are derived from obscure Irish mythology
(D) They are derived from unfamous sources
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Question’s Answer: They are derived from obscure Irish mythology
“My fiftieth year had come and gone,
I sat a solitary man,
In a crowded London shop,
An open book and empty cup
W.B. Yeats was a ______ .
(A) Anglo-Scotch poet
(B) Anglo-Indian poet
(C) Anglo-Roman poet
(D) Anglo-Irish poet
Question’s Answer: Anglo-Irish poet
What is Yeats’s The Land of Heart’s Desire?
(A) A drama in One Act
(B) A drama in three Acts
(C) A long narrative poem
(D) A prose treatise
Question’s Answer: A drama in One Act
What is Yeats’s Ideas of Good and Evil?
(A) A Collection of Lyrics
(B) A Collection of essays
(C) A Collection of tales
(D) A Collection of Odes
Question’s Answer: A Collection of essays
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Which is a poem not created and written by Yeats?
(A) The Statues
(B) A Bronze Head
(C) The Untilled Field
(D) Vacillation
Question’s Answer: The Untilled Field
“Wisdom is the property of the dead,
A something incomparable with life;
and power Like everything that has the stain of blood,
A property of the living.”
This line is taken from which of the following poem of Yeats?
(A) The Three Bushes
(B) Lapis Lazuli
(C) The Gyres
(D) A Prayer for Old Age
Question’s Answer: A Prayer for Old Age
Countess Cathleen is a drama written by Yeats. In what linguistic form is it written?
(A) In Rhyming Verse
(B) In prose
(C) In prose-poetry
(D) In Free Verse
Question’s Answer: In prose
Is Yeats primarily a-
(A) Satirist
(B) Imagist
(C) Symbolist
(D) Idealist
Question’s Answer: Symbolist
“… for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where
the cricket sings.”
This line is taken from which of the following poem?
(A) Byzantium
(B) Coole Park
(C) The Secret Rose
(D) The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Question’s Answer: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Yeats’s poem When You Are Old is addressed to:
(A) His wife
(B) His sister
(C) Robert Bridges
(D) His beloved Maud Gonne
Question’s Answer: His beloved Maud Gonne
What is the idea/theme of Sailing to Byzantium?
(A) Mortality of man
(C) A Utopian vision
(B) Land of ideal vision
(D) Eternity of life
Question’s Answer: Eternity of life
What is Yeats’s Reveries Over Childhood and Youth?
(A) An autobiographical treatise
(B) A satirical treatise
(C) A reflective treatise
(D) A prose-work
Question’s Answer: An autobiographical treatise
Which is a poem written by Yeats?
(A) Esther Waters
(B) The Day’s Work
(C) Palicio
(D) The Second Coming
Question’s Answer: The Second Coming
W.B. Yeats has written a poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree. Where is Innisfree situated?
(A) It is only an imaginary Island
(B) It is situated near the eastern coast of England
(C) It is situated in Lough Gill
(D) It is situated near the western coast of England
Question’s Answer: It is situated in Lough Gill
Yeats’s poem Coole Park is related with the poet’s association with which of the
following?
(A) The poet’s old-age memories
(B) Irish social life
(C) Lady Gregory
(D) The poet’s zest for life
Question’s Answer: Lady Gregory
One of the most important symbols is in Yeats’ poems is:

(a) Sky symbol
(b) Child symbol
(c) Bird’s symbol
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Bird’s symbol
Arthur Simons dedicated his book The Symbolist Movement in Literature to:
(a) T.S Eliot
(b) Ezra Pound
(c) W.B. Yeats
Question’s Answer: W.B. Yeats
In Yeats’ poems, “Rose” symbolizes:

(a) Creativity
(b) Apparent Beauty
(c) Intellectual Beauty
Question’s Answer: Intellectual Beauty
Which is not the work of Yeats?

(a) The Second Coming
(b) The Waste Land
(c) Among School Children
Question’s Answer: The Waste Land
In the poem “Among School Children” by Yeats ‘Dance’ is the symbol of:
(a) Beauty
(b) Calm
(c) Calm
(c) Unity
Question’s Answer: Unity
In Yeats’ Poem “Sailing To Byzantium”, “Byzantium” is the symbol of:

(a) Perfect world
(b) Unity
(c) Beauty
Question’s Answer: Perfect world
W.B. Yeats’ parents were:
(a) Painters
(b) Doctors
(c) Engineers
Question’s Answer: Painters
Which following is not the contemporary of W.B. Yeats?

(a) Chaucer
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) Ezra Pound
Question’s Answer: Chaucer
Yeats pass away in:

(a) Germany
(b) America
(c) France
Question’s Answer: France
Who was Lady Gregory?

(a) Callaborator of Yeats
(b) Yeats’ Sister
(c) Yeats’ Mother
Question’s Answer: Callaborator of Yeats
One of the earlier poems of W.B. Yeats is:

(a) The Mask
(b) In the Serene Woods
(c) The Tower
Question’s Answer: In the Serene Woods
W.B. Yeats was influenced by:

(a) TS Eliot
(b) W.H. Auden
(c) Ezra Pound
Question’s Answer: Ezra Pound
Yeats got married when he was:

(a) Fifty-one
(b) Fifty-three
(c) Fifty-two
Question’s Answer: Fifty-two
Yeats was a member of the Irish:

(a) Senate
(b) Assembly
(c) Parliament
Question’s Answer: Senate
Yeats stupass away at the School of Art in:

(a) Dublin
(b) France
(c) America
Question’s Answer: Dublin
In “Among School Children” while thinking of Maud Gonne being old, Yeats started
thinking of his:
(a) Old Age
(b) Childhood
(c) Youth
Question’s Answer: Youth
Aristotle was the tutor of:

(a) Alexander the Great
(b) Socrates
(c) Plato
Question’s Answer: Alexander the Great
Yeats’ poetic career spans the period of:

(a) Seventy years
(b) Sixty years
(c) Over fifty years
Question’s Answer: Over fifty years
Which school Yeats visited in 1926?

(a) Stafford School
(b) Beacon House
(c) Waterford Convent
(d) Inn School
Question’s Answer: Waterford Convent
With whom Yeats compared Maud Gonne in his poem ” Among School Children”?
(a) Cleopatra
(b) Helen
(c) Mona Liza
Question’s Answer: Helen
The “Second Phase” of Yeats poetry is from:

(a) 1901 to 1914
(b) 1903 to 1913
(c) 1902 to 1912
Question’s Answer: 1903 to 1913
The “Third Phase” of Yeats poetry is from:

(a) 1915 to 1910
(b) 1914 to the mid of 1928
(c) 1915 to 1920
Question’s Answer: 1914 to the mid of 1928
The girl students in the classrooms reminded Yeats’ of:

(a) Lady Gregory
(b) Anne
(c) Maud Gonne
Question’s Answer: Maud Gonne
W.B. Yeats pass away in:

(a) 1950
(b) 1930
(c) 1940
(d) 1939
Question’s Answer: 1939
The “Fourth Phase” of Yeats poetry is from:

(a) 1929 to 1940
(b) The mid of 1928 to 1939
(c) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The mid of 1928 to 1939
When did the last work of “Collected Plays” of Yeats was published?
(a) 1951
(b) 1954
(c) 1953
(d) 1952
W.B. Yeats was born in:

(a) 1880
(b) 1870
(c) 1875
(d) 1865
Who is the author of the “The Second Coming”?

(a) E. Spencer
(b) W.B. Yeats
(c) TS Eliot
Question’s Answer: W.B. Yeats
W.B. Yeats was a:

(a) Dramatist
(b) Poet and Dramatist
(c) Novelist
Question’s Answer: Poet and Dramatist
Yeats’ poem “A Vision” is:

(a) Political
(b) Mystic
(c) Romantic
Question’s Answer: Mystic
What is the theme of Yeats’ Poem “Sailing To Byzantium”?

(a) Mysticism
(b) Love
(c) Old Age
Question’s Answer: Old Age
The subject of Yeats’ poem “September 1913” is:

(a) Romance
(b) Mythology
(c) Politics
Question’s Answer: Politics
WB. Yeats belonged to the:

(a) 20th Century
(b) 19th Century
(c) 18th Century
(d) 17th Century
Question’s Answer: 20th Century
The last poems of Yeats are steeped in:

(a) Politics
(b) Mysticism
(c) Mythology
Question’s Answer: Mysticism
Yeats’ Poem, “A Pray for my Daughter” is a:

(a) Political
(b) Personal Poem
(c) Mystic
Question’s Answer: Personal Poem
Mythology which Yeats used in his early poems was derived from:
(a) Roman Mythology
(b) Greek Mythology
(c) Irish Heroic Legends
Question’s Answer: Irish Heroic Legends
Yeats’ poem “Easter 1916” deals with the:

(a) Beauty of Maud Gonne
(b) Contemporary history of Ireland
(c) Rise and fall of civilization
Question’s Answer: Contemporary history of Ireland
The “Nobel Prize for Literature” was given to Yeats in:

(a) 1926
(b) 1924
(c) 1925
(d) 1923
Aristotle and Plato were:
(a) Philosophers
(b) Writers
(c) Doctors
Question’s Answer: Philosophers
The main theme of Yeats’ poem “Among School Children” is:

(a) Love
(b) Old age
(c) Relationship of matter and spirit
Relationship of matter and spirit
How many stanzas are there in the poem “Among School Children”?
(a) Five stanzas
(b) Nine stanzas
(c) Eight stanzas
Eight stanzas
In the last stanza of ‘Among School Children’ Yeats compared life to:
(a) Bird
(b) Heaven
(c) A Chestnut Tree
A Chestnut Tree
Plato explained the world as the:

(a) Hell
(b) Shadow of God’s ideas
(c) Heaven
Shadow of God’s ideas
“Sailing To Byzantium” was proudly written by:

(a) T.S. Eliot
(b) W.B. Yeats
(c) John Keats
W.B. Yeats
“Pure Poetry” is:

(a) Romantic Poetry
(b) Free from the exterior decoration
(c) Sad Poetry
Free from the exterior decoration
To appreciate Yeats poems one has to be fully conversant with the

(a) Irish Background
(b) Background
(c) American Background
Irish Background
In the last lines of Among School Children” Yeats talked the need of a proper fusion:
(a) Between Body and Soul
(b) Between outer and inner beauty
(c) Between labour and spontaneity
Between labour and spontaneity
The first eight lines of “The Second Coming” sum up the situation of the world after:
(a) World War II
(b) World War-I
(c) (a) & (b)
World War-I
How many women, who influenced Yeats’ poems, came in his life?
(a) One
(b) Five
(c) Four
(d) Two
Two
“Istanbul” was the capital of:

(a) Greece
(b) Roman Empire
(c) France
Roman Empire
How many stanzas are there in ‘Sailing to Byzantium”Y

(a) Four stanzas
(b) Three stanzas
(c) Five stanzag
Four stanzas
Yeats’ beloved name was:
(a) Mary
(b) Maud Gonn
(c) Elizabeth
Maud Gonne
Yeats started writing “Pure Poetry” under Influence of:

(a) The Greek Symbolists
(b) The Roman Symbolists
(c) The French Symbolist and English Aesthetes
The French Symbolist and English Aesthetes
“Byzantium is the old name of

(a) Rome
(b) Greece
(c) Istanbul
Istanbul
Yeats’ poetry can be divided into:

(a) Four phases
(b) Three phases
(c) Two phases
Four phases
The “First Phase” of Yeats poetry is from:

(a) 1886 to 1902
(b) 1885 to 1901
(c) 1885 to 1903
1885 to 1903
How many stanzas are there in “The Second Coming”?

(a) Three stanzas
(b) Two stanzas
(c) Four stanzas
Two stanzas
Yeats poem “The Second Coming” was written in:
(a) 1924
(b) 1922
(c) 1923
(d) 1921
1921
Yeats married in:

(a) 1920
(b) 1918
(c) 1919
(d) 1917
1917
“Responsibilities” by Yeats is the volume of:

(a) Novels
(b) Poems
(c) W.B.Plays
Poems
“The Wind Among the Reeds” was published in which year?

(a) 1899
(b) 1890
(c) 1892
(d) 1900
1899
W B Yeats basic info

Full Name William Butler Yeats
Born June 13, 1865
Died January 28, 1939
Nationality Irish
Occupation Poet, Playwright
Literary
Modernism, Irish Literary Revival
Period
Famous “The Tower”, “The Wild Swans at Coole”, “Easter 1916”, “The
Works Second Coming”, “Sailing to Byzantium”
Notable Irish mythology and folklore, politics, love, the search for
Themes meaning
Symbolism, mysticism, lyricism, use of Irish mythology and

Literary Style
folklore
Influences Celtic mythology, Romanticism, Symbolism
W.B. Yeats books names

The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems 1889
The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics 1892
The Celtic Twilight 1893
Poems 1895
The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
Cathleen ni Houlihan (play, with Lady Gregory) 1902
In the Seven Woods 1903
The Green Helmet and Other Poems 1910
Responsibilities 1914
The Wild Swans at Coole 1917
The Tower 1928
The Winding Stair and Other Poems 1933
New Poems 1938
Last Poems 1940
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(B) Blood and the Moon

(C) Coole Park

Question’s Answer: Vacillation

W.B.Y Yeats books

The symbols used by W.B. Yeats are difficult to understand because:

(A) They are too intricate

(B) They are derived from Scottish legends

(C) They are derived from obscure Irish mythology

(D) They are derived from unfamous sources

“My fiftieth year had come and gone,

I sat a solitary man,

In a crowded London shop,

An open book and empty cup

W.B. Yeats was a ______ .

(A) Anglo-Scotch poet

(B) Anglo-Indian poet

(C) Anglo-Roman poet

(D) Anglo-Irish poet

Question’s Answer: Anglo-Irish poet

What is Yeats’s The Land of Heart’s Desire?

(A) A drama in One Act

(B) A drama in three Acts

(C) A long narrative poem

(D) A prose treatise

Question’s Answer: A drama in One Act

What is Yeats’s Ideas of Good and Evil?

(A) A Collection of Lyrics

(B) A Collection of essays

(C) A Collection of tales

(D) A Collection of Odes

Question’s Answer: A Collection of essays

Which is a poem not created and written by Yeats?

(A) The Statues

(B) A Bronze Head

(C) The Untilled Field

Question’s Answer: The Untilled Field

“Wisdom is the property of the dead,

A something incomparable with life;

and power Like everything that has the stain of blood,

A property of the living.”

This line is taken from which of the following poem of Yeats?

(A) The Three Bushes

(B) Lapis Lazuli

(C) The Gyres

(D) A Prayer for Old Age

Question’s Answer: A Prayer for Old Age

Countess Cathleen is a drama written by Yeats. In what linguistic form is it written?

(D) In Free Verse

Question’s Answer: In prose

Question’s Answer: Symbolist

This line is taken from which of the following poem?

(B) Coole Park

(C) The Secret Rose

(D) The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Question’s Answer: The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Yeats’s poem When You Are Old is addressed to:

(A) His wife

(B) His sister

(C) Robert Bridges

(D) His beloved Maud Gonne

Question’s Answer: His beloved Maud Gonne

What is the idea/theme of Sailing to Byzantium?