Sailing to Byzantium

Key points, themes and comparisons from Sailing to Byzantium by W.B. Yeats

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1. What are the main themes in this poem?

  • Ageing, Religion and Beauty of Ireland
  • Time, Love and Mythology
  • Ageing, religion and Death
  • Religion, Beauty of Ireland and Death
  • Death, Love and Time
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2. Yeats prefers modern ways and methods to old ways and methods.

  • False
  • True

3. This poem looks at the ideals of Ireland versus the reality. What other poem can this be linked to?

  • The Fisherman
  • Man and the Echo
  • The Stolen Child
  • Leda and the Swan
  • The Second Coming

4. What does Yeats make repeated references to in this poem?

  • Music and Singing
  • Irish Nationalits
  • Maud Gonne
  • Swans

5. Yeats' criticism of the modern education system compares to which poem?

  • Wild Swans at Coole
  • Amongst School Children
  • September 1913
  • Cat and the Moon
  • Easter 1916

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