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
