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Relax

1. Listen to a radio documentary about the life of W.B. Yeats, a famous poet. What do you know about him? Choose the correct answers:

  1. Where did Yeats spend his childhood?

a) in Ireland

b) in Ireland and England

c) in England.

 

  1. Where did he first hear Irish folk tales?

a) at home

b) in Dublin

c) at school.

 

  1. Maud Gonne was:

a) an English nationalist

b) a terrorist

c) an Irish nationalist.

 

  1. Yeats asked Maud Gonne to marry him:

a) twice

b) three times

c) four times.

 

  1. Which of Yeats works are more romantic?

a) his early poems

b) his later poems

c) his plays.

 

  1. When did he die?

a) in 1923

b) in 1939

c) in 1948

 

2. Try to complete this famous poem by Yeats with the nouns in the box. Remember that poems often rhyme:

Bars beauty book eyes face fire mountains sleep sorrows stars

1) When you are old and grey and full of a) ______,

And nodding by the b) ______, take down this c) _______,

And slowly read, and dream of the soft look

Your d) _______ had once, and of their shadows deep;

2) How many loved your moments of glad grace,

And loved your e) _______ with love false or true,

But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you,

And loved the f) _____ of your changing g) ______;

3) And bending down beside the glowing h) ______,

Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled

And paced upon the i) ______ overhead

And hid his face amid a crowd of j) ___________.

 

3. Match each verse of the poem (1-3) with a summary (a-c):

  1. Remember that there were lots of people who loved you for your looks, but that I loved you for yourself. I especially loved you when you look sad.
  2. As you bend down near the fire, say quietly to yourself how you lost my love. But though I was very sad, my love for you didnt die.
  3. When you are an old woman, falling asleep by the fire, read the book which contains this poem and think about how beautiful you were when you were young.




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