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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Wild Swans at Coole thesis	Yeats’ poetry explores age and youth as antinomies in order to understand the complexities of life and death, thus his work has endured throughout the generations	100%
E 3	"All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born." Oxymoronic Motif	0%
E 4	"A terrible beauty is born" Symbolic Repetition	0%
WSAC 1	“Brilliant creatures” Symbolism	0%
S2B 3	"come from the holy fire, perne in gyre" Symbolism + Imagery	0%
S2B 2	"fish, flesh or fowl," and "birds in the trees" Metaphor, Fricative Alliteration	0%
E 2	"Grey", "Meaningless", "Mocking" Dreary Descriptors	0%
Second coming thesis	In ‘The Second Coming”, yeats revelas his contextual questions of his time, demonstrating how the period of upheaval creates much uncertainty about the nature of society’s future	0%
WSAC 3	“October twilight” Symbolism	0%
S2B 1	"Palty" and "tattered" Analogy	0%
E 1	"Polite meaningless words" Repeition	0%
SC 1	"Surely the second coming is at hand" Anaphora	0%
S2B 4	“That is no country for old men. The young” Pronoun + Contrast	0%
SC 4	"The ceremony of innocence is drowned" Personification + Symbolism	0%
SC 3	"The falcon cannot hear the falconer" Polysyndeton + Bib Allusion	0%
WSAC 2	“The nineteenth autumn has come upon me.” Personification, Contrast	0%
Wild Swans at Coole themes	Time & Ageing, Uncertainty of death, Nature vs Humanity, Envy of life, Frailty of human life	0%
Sailing to Byzantium themes	Transcience of Life, Mortality, Immortality, Man vs Nature + Eternity	0%
SC 2	"Turning and turning in the widening gyre"	0%
Easter themes	uncertainty in the critique of martyrdom, admiration, political view	0%
Second coming themes	Violence, Prophency, Meaningless	0%
Easter thesis	yeats forms a complex response to the Irish Easter rising, attempting, and ultimately failing, to reconcile the dichotomy between his admiration for the cause of Irish nationalism with the futility of the martyr’s sacrifice.	0%
Sailing to Byzantium thesis	Yeats laments the bleakness of old age and confronts the pressures of mortality, yearning for the contrasting immortality of art. The title foregrounds a journey to the city of Byzantium, symbolic of the elusive permanence which Yeats seeks.	0%