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Passage

Study the following poem and answer all the questions that follow:

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,

And nodding by the fire, take down this book,

And slowly read, and dream of the soft look

Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,

And loved your beauty with love false or true,

But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,

And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,

Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled

And paced upon the mountains overhead

And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

Question 1 (1 of 5 Based on Passage)

Appeared in Year: 2017

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How does the poet evoke the images of his beloved in the first stanza?

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Explanation

  • This poem is written by W. B Yeats and is addressed to Maud Gonne, the woman with whom he was in love. In general, this poem speaks about the decaying and dying of youth and beauty with the passage of time. While tracing the autobiographical elements of Yeats, this poem narrates about how his beloved Maud Gonne would grow old with the passage of ti…

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Question 2 (2 of 5 Based on Passage)

Appeared in Year: 2017

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What sort of person, do you think, is the speaker of the poem?

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  • The speaker of the poem is a writer or a poet who believes in true love. The speaker imagines his beloved in the old age stage and describes about her grey, weary, dull image. By describing her in such a way, he also reminds us about the beauty and shininess of her, once she possessed. Now, she had lost her “soft looks” and the beautiful glittering…

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Question 3 (3 of 5 Based on Passage)

Appeared in Year: 2017

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How does the poet help the reader understand the theme of his poem through skillful use of diction and concrete language?

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  • The brilliant use of Yeats diction and concrete language takes the reader to take a pool in to this poem and makes them to think deeply about the subject matter he intends to convey. For him, this poem is not simply glued on the theme of his lost love but, conveys a general message that only a person՚s spiritual and inner beauty remains forever reg…

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Question 4 (4 of 5 Based on Passage)

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How does the poet present a portrait of decaying and dying youth and beauty?

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  • The poem takes us through the waves of current situation and predicts the future. In the present situation, the speaker is rejected by his beloved and he is in utter disappointment. But, he predicts the future of her by saying that in her old age she will be facing the same pain of the speaker and will regret for rejecting the speaker՚s love.
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Question 5 (5 of 5 Based on Passage)

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Comment on poet՚s use of passionate, evocative, and expressive vocabulary.

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  • Yeats use of passionate, evocative, and expressive vocabulary creates an exceptional rhythm and distinct emotions in the mind of the readers. The word selected by Yeats to describe the woman, his lover, differ accordingly and gives a feeling that the time too is moving with the poem and with the age of the woman.
  • His love is unconditional regardless…

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Question 6

Appeared in Year: 2021

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Critically comment in about 150 words each on the following passages focussing on the context: (Paper 2)

Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages,

And all the drop scenes drop at once

Upon a hundred thousand stages,

It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.

(W. B. Yeats)

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Explanation

William Butler Yeats was Irish poet, dramatist and former Senator of new Irish Senate. He was one of the founding figures of the Abbey Theatre and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival. He was symbolist poet.

The lines have been taken from the poem Lapiz Lazuli, written in 1936, is part of his collection ‘Last poems’ . W. B. Yeats makes referen…

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Question 7

Appeared in Year: 2021

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Answer all of the following: (Paper 2)

How are “Sailing to Byzantium” and “Byzantium” associated with each other? Show how this relatedness contributes to establishing W. B. Yeats as a myth-maker.

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William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist and politician, born in 1865. He was a late Victorian and an early modernist. He was one of the founding members of the Abbey Theatre and played a crucial role in the Celtic revival. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Yeats՚ poems have a lyrical style that includes themes of long…

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