Irish Lit Mid term poem identification

What poem is this?

I and Pangur Ban, my cat

Tis a like task we are at;

Hunting mice is his delight

Hunting Words i sit all night

Better far than praise of men

Tis to sit with book and pen

Pangur bears me no ill will

He too plies his simple skill

Tis a merry thing to see

At our tasks how glad are we

When at home we sit and find

Entertainment to our mind

Oftentimes a mouse will stray

In the hero Pangur’s way

Oftentimes my keen thought set

Takes a meaning in its net

Gainst the wall he sets his eye

Full and fierce and sharp and sly

Gainst the wall of knowledge I

All my little wisdom try.

When a mouse darts from its den

O how glad is Pangur then!

O what gladness do I prove

When I solve the doubts I love!

So in peace our tasks we ply,

Pangur Ban, my cat, and I

In our arts we find our bliss,

I have mine and he has his

Practice every day has made

Pangur perfect in his trade;

I get wisdom day and night

Turning darkness into light

(pangur ban)

What poem is this?

EBB Tide to me as of the seal

Old age causes me reproach.

Though I may grieve thereat-

Happiness comes out of fat

I am the Old Woman of Beare,

An ever-new smock I used to wear:

Today- such is my mean estate-

I wear not even a cast-off shift

It is riches

Ye love, it is not men:

In the time when we lived

It was men.

Swift chariots,

and steeds that carried off the prize—

their day of plenty has been,

a blessing on the king who lent them!

My body with bitterness has dropt

Towards the abode we know:

When the Son of God deems it time

Let Him come to deliver His behest

My arms when they are seen

Now are bony and thin:

Once they would fondle and caress

The bodies of glorious kings

When my arms are seen

And they bony and thin

They are not fit, I declare,

To be raised over comely men.

The maidens rejoice

When May-day comes to them:

For me, sorrow the share;

I am wretched, I am an old hag.

(the old woman of beare)

What century is the Old Woman of Beare from?

10th century

What century was the Pangur Ban from?

9th century

What century is the Flight of the Earls from?

17th century

What century is Eve’s lament?

10th century

What century was the dark rosaleen?

16th century

What century are WB Yeats poems from? (James Clarence)

mid 18th century

Who wrote Stolen Child?

WB Yeats

Who wrote The Song of Wandering Aengus?

WB Yeats

Who wrote the Fiddler of Dooney?

WB Yeats

What poem is this?

When I play on my fiddle in Dooney,

Folk dance like a wave of the sea;

My cousin is priest in Kilvarnet

My brother in Mocharabuiee

I passed my brother and cousin

They read in my book of songs

I bought at the Sligo fair

When we come at the end of time

To Peter sitting in state,

He will smile on the three old spirits

But call me first through the gate

For the good are always the merry,

save by an evil chance,

and the merry love to fiddle

and the merry love to dance

And when the folk there spy me,

They will all come up to me,

With ‘Here is the fiddler of Dooney!’

And dance like a wave of the sea

What makes WB Yeat’s poems identifiable?

The repetition, he references many mystical and pagan themes throughout the poems, and the ending of the words rhymes with an aba format.

What poem is this?

I dreamed that one had died in a strange place

Near no accustomed hand:

And they had nailed the boards above her face,

The peasants of the land,

Wondering to lay her in that solitude,

And raised above her mound

A cross they had made out of two bits of wood,

And planted cypress round;

And left her to the indifferent stars above

Until I carved these words

She was more beautiful than thy first love

But now lies under boards

(A dream of Death)

What poem is this? (sing oh!)

When all beside a vigil keep,

The West’s asleep, the West’s asleep -

Alas! and well may Erin weep

When Connacht lies in slumber deep.

There lake and plain smile fair and free

Mid rocks their guardian chilvary.

Sing, Oh! let men learn liberty

From crashing wind and lashing sea

That chainless wave and lovely land

Freedom and nationhood demand;

For slumbering slaves a home so grand

And long a brave and haughty race

Honored and sentinelled the place

Sing Oh! not even their son’s disgrace

Can quite destroy their glory’s trace.

What poem is this?

When boyhood’s fire in my blood,

I read of ancient freemen,

For Greece and Rome who bravely stood,

THREE HUNDRED MEN AND THREE MEN

And then I prayed I yet might see,

Our fetters rent in twain,

And Ireland, long a province, be

A NATION ONCE AGAIN

What century is St. Patrick’s Breast plate from?

8th century

What poem serves the first words as constant repetition?

St. Patrick’s Breast Plate

Who wrote The West’s Asleep?

Thomas Davis

What is Gile na Gile about? (The Glamoured)

A man notices a woman and compliments her. She is getting sa, and he hesitates to help