History of English Literature and Literary Studies · English Literary Traditions across Time: Chaucer to contemporary English literature · 1 mark · Multiple select
Which of the following line(s) has/have been excerpted from W. B. Yeats’ writings?
Consume my heart away; sick with desire/And fastened to a dying animal/It knows not what it is
What we call the beginning is often the end/And to make an end is to make a beginning
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world/The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/The ceremony of innocence is drowned
Lay your sleeping head, my love,/Human on my faithless arm;/Time and fevers burn away/Individual beauty from/Thoughtful children, and the grave/Proves the child ephemeral
Correct answer: (A) Consume my heart away; sick with desire/And fastened to a dying animal/It knows not what it is; (C) Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world/The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/The ceremony of innocence is drowned
Explanation
A is from “Sailing to Byzantium” and C from “The Second Coming”, both by Yeats. B is from T. S. Eliot's “Little Gidding” and D is Auden's “Lullaby”.