Among School

Question 1

Form: A Roman…

Answer 1

…numeral head each stanza.

Question 2

Stanza 1: Start of poem…

Answer 2

…is presented realistically with Yeats visiting a school.

Question 3

Stanza 2: “I walk” replaced by…

Answer 3

…“I dream”. Not wholly concentrating on the school room.

Question 4

Stanza 2: “A Ledean body”.

Answer 4

Maud Gonnes youthful body.

Question 5

Stanza 2: “yolk and white of an egg”.

Answer 5

Link?

Question 6

Stanza 3: Yeats is shown looking at the school…

Answer 6

… Girls and wondering whether Maud stood so at that age. Memory of her drives his hear wild. She appears before him as a living child.

Question 7

Stanza 4: compares her present image with past. “Float”

Answer 7

Present less powerful than past.

“Float” - gives it a spectral quality. Verb.

Question 8

Stanza 4: suggests he was handsome once…

Answer 8

…abandons idea with a ceasura to emphasises the wishful thought.

Question 9

Stanza 4: “better to smile on all that smile”.

Answer 9

Showing that he is trying to take the process of ageing without complaint. Link to byzant - tattered… Here trying to avoid bitterness.

Question 10

Stanza 5: bitterness hard to avoid.

Answer 10

Looks at ageing man from mothers perspective. Questions if the suffering of a woman on childbirth is compensated… Sixty winters… Presents argument that all things age-bitter. Winter - bitter.

Question 11

Stanza 6: mentions 3 famous philosophers. 1

Answer 11

Plato

Question 12

Stanza 6: 2

Answer 12

Soldier Aristotle

Question 13

Stanza 6: 3

Answer 13

Pythagoras

Question 14

Form: Ottava…

Answer 14

…Rima. 8 stanzas with 8 lines. Regular rhythm. Regular rhyme scheme of abababcc.