1. Identify what you consider to be thethree most important words. Explain your choice.Anarchy is one of the important words of this poem because the first stanza overall illustrates a chaotic status. Anarchy directly conveys such disordered situation, which is also the mood the poet wants readers to feel.Sun is also important because it demonstrates a desperate tone. Sun is connoted as hope, but in the poem, it is blank and pitiless. The efflux of sun suggests the collapse of human beings hope and belief, which further depicts the societys despondency.Surely contains a power of certainty. It adds power to the poem, making readers feel more overwhelming.

2. Identify what you believe to be the most important line. Explain your choice.The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.The good people lose the will to be good yet the vicious people are filled with passion and energy. The poet reveals a very pessimistic view toward his society where evil conquers kindness. This substitution of kindness resonates with the one of the purposes of the poem: to exclaim for the disappearance of humankind.

3. Identify what you consider to be the most confusing line/word. Explain your choice.And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?I think this line requires pre-knowledge about certain cultural context and values, which is difficult for a bystander, from another culture, to understand the connotation.

4. Describe the MOOD of the poem inthree words or less.Chaotic, overwhelming.

5. Give the poem a different title. Explainyour choice.DoomsdayThe walking lion symbolizes the impeding chaos the society may face. It is going to lead the society to next era, a suffering era that things fall apart. So it is like the doomsday that destroys the current order and unlock a new era.