Modern Poetry Quiz

The speaker in "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" describes both the past and the future as a ________.

"waste of breath"

The word grave in Stanza 5 of the poem can be interpreted in two ways: __________.

solemn and close to death

In "The Second Coming," Yeats alludes to ________.

the Christian notion of an apocalypse that involves the return of a messiah or savior

For what are the "good men" in the poem known?

their "frail deeds"

All of the lines in "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" rhyme with either __________.

night or day

In "The Second Coming," the third-person speaker has a distinctly ________.

pessimistic view of the future

The speaker addresses this poem to _______

his father

In "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," the speaker is motivated to join the war effort by ________.

a personal desire for adventure

What mythological figure is described in lines 11-22 of "The Second Coming"?

a sphinx

What do night and light represent in this poem?

death and life