Question

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

Answer 1

The answer is C. World War I

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The poem was written about a year after WWI ended.