1.
When was this poem originally published?
1927
1917
1915
1925
2.
How many years has it been since the speaker first came to the lake?
Twenty-Eight
Nineteen
Fifty-Nine
Eighteen
3.
Which of these rhyme schemes does the poem follow?
ABCBDD
ABBACC
ABABAC
AABCBC
4.
What world event was predominant when this poem was written?
World War II
World War I
The Northern Ireland Conflict
The Great Exhibition
5.
In which month of the year does this poem take place?
September
November
October
August
6.
Which of these is a central theme of the poem?
The Power of Family
The Passage of Time
First Love
Ambition
7.
Line 23, “Passion or conquest, wander where they will,” uses which literary device?
Alliteration
Metonymy
Metaphor
Assonance
8.
What best describes the speaker’s attitude towards their surroundings?
Angry
Joyous
Wistful
Guilty
9.
Which of these is an example of slant rhyme?
“Trod with a lighter tread”
“they drift on the still water”
“before I had well finished”
“Under the October twilight”
10.
Which of these is an example of personification?
“Companionable streams”
“the brimming water”
“bell-beat of their wings”
“Delight men's eyes”
11. What is the poem’s rhyme scheme?
ABCABC
ABCBDD
AABBCC
ABABAB
12. Which one of these do the swans NOT symbolize?
Ambition and success
Yeats’ unrequited love for Maude Gonne
Art and writing
Eternity and immortality
13. Where was Yeats when he wrote the poem?
Dublin, Ireland
Cork, Ireland
Galway, Ireland
London, England
14. Who was Lady Gregory?
Yeats' teacher
Yeats' patron and friend
Yeats' sister
Yeats' mother
15. What did the missing sixtieth swan NOT symbolize?
Yeats’ loneliness, being without a wife
Lady Gregory’s son, killed in World War I
Maud Gonne, who disappeared from Yeats’ life after rejecting him
The poetic success that eluded Yeats
16. What major contrast does the poem fixate on?
Desire and love
Change and permanence
Sadness and happiness
Ugliness and beauty
17. What does "clamorous" mean?
Quiet
Noisy
Angry
Large
18. Which was Yeats most interested in?
Mormonism
Metaphysics
Occultism
Christianity
19. What is a typical characteristic of Romantic poetry?
An interest in improving the world
A reverence for Jesus Christ
An emphasis on human perfection
An idealization of nature
20. What poetic school does Yeats fall into?
Romanticism
Postmodernism
Modernism
Romanticism and modernism
21. Coole is the name of...
Yeats' cat
The park where Lady Gregory lived
The woods where Yeats lived when he was nineteen
Yeats' tower in Galway
22. What year was "The Wild Swans at Coole" first published?
1917
1914
1915
1919
23. Which symbol has overt occult connotations?
Lakes
Trees
The month of August
The number 59
24. Yeats met which famous Occultist while in London?
Marie Laveau
Stevie Nicks
Leonardo Da Vinci
Helena Blavatsky
25. How old was Yeats when he wrote "The Wild Swans at Coole?"
64
49
19
51
26. What was the title of the poetry collection in which "The Wild Swans at Coole" was published?
The Second Coming
The Circus Animals' Desertion
The Wild Swans at Coole
Sailing to Byzantium
27. Yeats was influenced by which occult poet?
William Blake
Aleister Crowley
Ocean Vuong
John Keats
28. Yeats wrote this poem during which conflict?
World War II
The Irish potato famine
The Irish war for independence
World War I
29. Which theme is this poem NOT about?
Aging
Loneliness
Time
Persistence
30. What do the swans NOT symbolize?
Immortality
Love and longing
Aging and decline
Creativity and writing
31. During which season does the poem take place?
Autumn
WInter
Summer
Spring
32. Which is an example of onomatopoeia?
"Clamorous"
"Lover by lover"
"Those brilliant creatures"
"Mirrors a still sky"
33. What kind of poem is "The Wild Swans at Coole"?
Ballad
Soliloquy
Allegory
Villanelle
34. What shape does Yeats refer to in this poem when he describes the swans' flight?
Ovals
Squares
Diamonds
Circles
