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William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats: life

Choose the correct alternative to complete the sentences.

1. William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin in ________.
2. His was a middle-class artistic family of the Anglo-Irish Protestant ________.
3. They moved to London two years after his birth and lived there for 14 years, though they spent the summer in Sligo, in the ________ countryside, with his mother's family.
4. The young Yeats was fascinated by the old ________ romances and their mystical dimension.
5. He sympathised with the ________ cause and started thinking of a distinctive Irish literature to be proud of.
6. He fell in love with the actress and patriot Maud ________, who did not return his feelings.
7. In the 1890s he met Lady Gregory, with whom he founded the ________ Theatre in Dublin in 1899.

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William Butler Yeats: the gyre

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A gyre is a ________ figure, similar to a funnel. It is like a spiral that grows increasingly wider from the point where it starts until its ________ point of expansion. Then the gyre goes back in the opposite ________. In brief, the resulting figure can be described as a double vortex, where the apex of one is at the centre of the other's ________. According to Yeats, the mind's evolution is a process of circling towards the wide end of a gyre, until the centre cannot hold. At that point a ________ occurs and the mind shifts to a new centre. He expressed this concept in the third line of the poem The ________ Coming.

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William Butler Yeats: life

Put the following sentences related to Yeats's life in the correct order: write numbers from 1 to 5.

________ He bought Thoor Ballylee, a ruined medieval tower-house in County Galway.
________ He became a senator in the Irish Free State.
________ He married Georgie Hyde-Lees.
________ He developed some 'automatic writing' in his book A Vision.
________ He won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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William Butler Yeats: works

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Yeats's work can be divided into three periods. In the early period he was influenced by the languid atmosphere of the Puritans and the mood of the Decadent artists. In this phase he wrote the collections The Lily and The Wind among the Reeds, getting his ideas from Irish folklore and the Italian Symbolists. In the middle period, which dates from the end of the twentieth century, he used symbols to evoke universal myths. This period is marked by the collections In the Seven Woods,The Green Helmet and Other Poems,Responsibilities: Poems and a Play and The Wild Swans at Coole. In the later period he passionately described his life in the book A Vision and wrote the collections Michael Robartes and the Dancer,The Tower,The Winding Stair,New Poems and Last Poems.

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William Butler Yeats: the artist's role

Read the following sentences and say whether they are true or false.

A: According to Yeats, the role of the artist was to create a new culture based on Ireland's past.

B: In his collection of essays The Celtic Twilight he expressed his doubts about an Irish cultural renaissance.

C: In his early poems he never dealt with the tension between art and national loyalty.

D: He created a tragic vision of history based on 2000-year cycles going from a bestial floor to intellectual and spiritual heights, before turning like a wheel down to anarchy.

E: His art dealt with violence and destruction, and was, in his view, superior to history.

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William Butler Yeats: occultism

Complete the sentences with the correct information.

1. Yeats joined a famous mystical society when he was in ________.
2. He studied Swedenborg, ________ Mysteries and Buddhism.
3. He learnt magic and esoteric ________.
4. He concocted the idea of the '________', which helped explain his concept of history.
5. He believed that these doctrines provided clues to the unconscious life of mind and spirit, that is, the ________ of creative imagination.

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William Butler Yeats: themes

Tick the words or phrases related to Yeats's themes.

A: Love.

B: Tradition.

C: Age.

D: Faith.

E: Future.

F: Death.

G: Loneliness.

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William Butler Yeats: symbols

Choose the correct alternatives to complete the sentence.

According to Yeats, symbols

A: were only pointless rhetorical devices.

B: were of three kinds.

C: made penetrating the Great Memory possible.

D: could shape both the individual and the collective consciousness.

E: were only the means to present his themes.

F: had a 'visionary' dimension.

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William Butler Yeats: style

Read the following sentences and say whether they are true or false.

A: Yeats's work is based on the conflict and resolution of opposites.

B: He only employed alliteration and metaphors.

C: He constructed his sentences with great care.

D: His sentences are never short and simple.

E: He made no use of enjambement, and his syntax is very static and traditional.

F: His words pertain to the sphere of abstract ideas and include many descriptive verbs.

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William Butler Yeats: style

Complete the sentences with the words below.

1. Yeats employs frequent images of ________.
2. The ________ stands for a violent and cruel rapacity or the grace of free spirit.
3. The ________ can symbolise the perfect ideal or a violent divine force.
4. The tower suggests ________ and reclusion, tradition and natural heritage.
5. The tower symbolises his vision of the dark ________ of humanity.
6. Yeats's most frequently used word is 'all', which he adopted to universalise ________.

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