W.B. Yeats

Revision Quiz

1

Which Exam Poems have we studied?• The Stolen Child• September 1913• The Cold Heaven• Wild Swans of Coole

• An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

2

What other poem can you make reference to?

• The Lake Isle of Innisfree

3

How do we refer to his early poems?

The Celtic Twilight Poems

The next few questions will give you the opening few words from each exam poem.

Name that poem.

4

“Suddenly I saw…”

The Cold Heaven

5

“I know that I shall….”

An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

6

“Although I can see…”

The Fisherman

7

“What need you…”

September 1913

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“Where dips …”

The Stolen Child

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“The trees are….”

The Wild Swans at Coole

The next few poems will quote a line or phrase from on of the poems.

Name that poem.

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“Those that I guard I do not trust”

An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

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“All that delirium of the brave”

September 1913

12

“Vanished and left but memories”

The Cold Heaven

13

“There lies a leafy island”

The Stolen Child

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“For this that all that blood was shed,”

September 1913

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“All’s changed”

The Wild Swans at Coole

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“That seemed as though ice burned...”

The Cold Heaven

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“While the world is full of troubles...”

The Stolen Child

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“A lonely impulse of delight”

An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

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“Passion or conquest, wander where they will”

The Wild Swans at Coole

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“Yet they were of a different kind”

September 1913

• Planning effectively:1) In pairs you will be given one

of the poems to focus on. 2) Come up with as many

different points to answer the question – each one on a separate post-it note.

3) Pair up with another group. Place your ideas on the venn diagram – are there any which overlap?

Compare and contrast the ways Yeats presents ageing and death in ‘The Cold Heaven’ and ‘The Wild Swans

at Coole’

TCH TWSAC

W.B. Yeats on Old Age, Death and ImmortalityVirginia D. Pruitt

• YEATS was always aware of the fragility of life

• one who broods upon the vulnerability of life is doomed to live always in life's shadow, the imminence of death.

• Yeats regarded old age as an enemy, but death represented a menace

• For Yeats was undeniably growing old and ill. His anger over that deterioration has, by consensus, been regarded as a primary impetus to the writing of his last years.

Homework

Compare and contrast the ways Yeats presents ageing and death in ‘The Cold Heaven’ and ‘The

Wild Swans at Coole’Due: Monday 2nd March

NB: Continue to add to your comparison chart after today’s lesson. Due Thursday 5th March