Exam 3: Poems: Part A

Ceremony is a name for

Who watched the last oozing hours by hours?

"The Great Queen" that rose out of the spray is

W.B. Yeats' A Prayer for my Daughter was written in __________, shortly after Yeats daughter, Anne's birth.

What was howling outside Yeats' house?

The device used by the poet in Ode to Autumn is

According to Yeats, what is under the 'cradle hood and coverlid'?

Where are the ________ of Springs? Ay, where are they?

William Butler Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in

The gleaner walks carefully across

What are the two 'close bosom-friends' mentioned in Ode to Autumn?

A Prayer for My Daughter is marked by a strong personal note relating to

The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is

The loveliest woman born according to Yeats is

Once more the storm is howling and

The red ___________ whistles from a garden croft

May she become a flourishing hidden -

May she be granted ___________ and yet not Beauty to make a stranger's eye distraught.

The reaper in Ode to Autumn falls asleep because he

Accordingly, Keats' poems leave the uncertainties and doubts open to the reader's