The questions below refer to the selection “The Second Coming” and “Sailing to Byzantium.” Based on the time when the poem “The
Second Coming” was written, Images of a “blood-dimmed tide” and of drowned innocence in lines 5–6 were probably affected by the events of — a. the Boer War c. World War I b. the Victorian era d. World War II
The irony of the poem is that Ozymandias claims to have done many great works and boasts of his might yet he lies in the middle of a desert, broken with nothing to support his claim of his deeds
