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W.B. Yeats Previous Year UGC-NET Questions
1. The line “moments of unageing intellect” occurs in Yeats’s
2. In which of the following works Yeats developed his theory of ‘gyres’?
3. Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium” is about
4. “Being so caught up, so mastered by the brute __________ of the air, Did she put on his knowledge with his power, Before the __________ beak could let her drop.” Yeats, ‘Leda and the Swan’ Choose the right words for the blanks
5. Which of the following images is NOT part of W.H. Auden’s poem “In Memory of W.B. Yeats”?
6. In a poem in memory of Major Robert Gregory, Lady Gregory’s son, W.B. Yeats mentions an Irish writer who had found his inspiration “In a most desolate stony place” that he came “Towards nightfall upon a race/ passionate and simple like his heart.” Who is the writer?
7. W.B. Yeats’s “Easter 1916” is
8. The year 1939 proved to be a crucial year for two important writers in England. Identify the correct phrase below:
9. Which of the following is the correct chronological sequence?
10. Which one of the following modern poems employs ottava rima?
11. “A sudden blow : the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her nap caught in his bill, He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.” Who is the author of the above lines?
12. “Consume my heart away; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal.” The above lines are taken from
13. “That woman’s days were spent In ignorant good – will, Her nights in argument Until her voice grew shrill” (W. B. Yeats : “Easter 1916”) Who is the poet referring to?
14. On which of the following authors has Peter Ackroyd NOT written a biography?
15. Who is the author of the collection The Celtic Twilight?
16. Which of the following poems by W. B. Yeats repudiates the sensual world in favour of “the artifice of eternity”?
17. Of whom did W.B. Yeats say that “We were the last Romantics”?
18. Match List I and List II:
List I (Lines):
A. “Monuments of unaging intellect”
B. “in the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart”
C. “So mastered by the brute blood of the air”
D. “As weary-hearted as that hollow moon”
List II (Poems):
I. “Leda and the Swan”
II. “Adam’s Curse”
III. “Sailing to Byzantium”
IV. “The Circus Animals’ Desertion”
19. Match the following opening lines with their respective titles:
Opening Lines:
(a) “I leant upon a coppice gate”
(b) “A Sudden blow: the great wings beating still..”
(c) “Among twenty snowy mountains”
(d) “I know what the caged bird feels, alas…”
Titles:
(i) “Thirteen Blackbirds”
(ii) “Sympathy”
(iii) “The Darkling Thrush”
(iv) “Leda and the Swan”
Code: (a) (b) (c) (d)
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