WSC 2025-REIGNITING THE FUTURE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
Robert Frost (1874-1963) - Answer - Was an American poet. His work was initially
published in England before it was published in America. He is highly regarded for his
realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech.
Podcasts - Answer - a digital audio file made available on the internet for downloading to
a computer or mobile device, typically available as a series, new installments of which
can be received by subscribers automatically
Algorithms - Answer - a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other
problem-solving operations, especially by a computer.
Horace - Answer - Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus, said to have influenced
English poetry (65-8 BC)
Ode I. 11 - Answer - Leucon, no one's allowed to know his fate,
Not you, not me: don't ask, don't hunt for answers
In tea leaves or palms. Be patient with whatever comes.
This could be our last winter, it could be many
More, pounding the Tuscan Sea on these rocks:
Do what you must, be wise, cut your vines
And forget about hope. Time goes running, even
As we talk. Take the present, the future's no one's affair.
Ode I.11 - Answer - Was written by Horace
William Butler Yeats - Answer - An Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the
foremost figures of 20th-century literature.
"The Second Coming" (1919) - Answer - Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
, Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
The Second Coming - Answer - Was written by William Butler Yeats in 1919
Fire and Ice (1920) - Answer - Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what i've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Fire and Ice - Answer - It was written by Robert Frost in 1920
Emily Dickinson - Answer - One of the most important figure in American poetry
The Future-never spoke (1921) - Answer - The Future—never spoke—
Nor will He—like the Dumb—
Reveal by sign—a syllable
Of His Profound To Come—
But when the News be ripe—
Presents it—in the Act—
Forestalling Preparation—
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
Robert Frost (1874-1963) - Answer - Was an American poet. His work was initially
published in England before it was published in America. He is highly regarded for his
realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech.
Podcasts - Answer - a digital audio file made available on the internet for downloading to
a computer or mobile device, typically available as a series, new installments of which
can be received by subscribers automatically
Algorithms - Answer - a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other
problem-solving operations, especially by a computer.
Horace - Answer - Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus, said to have influenced
English poetry (65-8 BC)
Ode I. 11 - Answer - Leucon, no one's allowed to know his fate,
Not you, not me: don't ask, don't hunt for answers
In tea leaves or palms. Be patient with whatever comes.
This could be our last winter, it could be many
More, pounding the Tuscan Sea on these rocks:
Do what you must, be wise, cut your vines
And forget about hope. Time goes running, even
As we talk. Take the present, the future's no one's affair.
Ode I.11 - Answer - Was written by Horace
William Butler Yeats - Answer - An Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the
foremost figures of 20th-century literature.
"The Second Coming" (1919) - Answer - Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
, Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
The Second Coming - Answer - Was written by William Butler Yeats in 1919
Fire and Ice (1920) - Answer - Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what i've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Fire and Ice - Answer - It was written by Robert Frost in 1920
Emily Dickinson - Answer - One of the most important figure in American poetry
The Future-never spoke (1921) - Answer - The Future—never spoke—
Nor will He—like the Dumb—
Reveal by sign—a syllable
Of His Profound To Come—
But when the News be ripe—
Presents it—in the Act—
Forestalling Preparation—
