Q01of 10
What is the overall verse form of 'A Prayer for my Daughter'?
Q02of 10
Which mythological figure does Yeats use to illustrate how excessive beauty leads to trouble with 'a fool'?
Q03of 10
What does the speaker fear most for his daughter's character, calling it 'the worst'?
Q04of 10
The image of 'a flourishing hidden tree' and 'some green laurel / Rooted in one dear perpetual place' primarily conveys the speaker's wish for his daughter to have:
Q05of 10
Which real-world woman in Yeats's life is most widely believed to be the target of the lines about a woman who traded 'the horn of plenty' for 'angry wind'?
Q06of 10
In the poem's opening stanzas, the Atlantic storm primarily functions as:
Q07of 10
The phrase 'murderous innocence of the sea' is best described as which poetic device?
Q08of 10
What virtue does the speaker place above beauty as the quality he most wishes his daughter to possess?
Q09of 10
What is the dominant tone of the poem's final stanza?
Q10of 10
According to the poem, what condition allows the soul to recover 'radical innocence' and become truly self-sufficient?
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