CREATING 1. Write a personal essay exploring what you feel passionate about.
2. Imagine it is 1921 and you have just read this poem. Write a letter to W. B. Yeats telling him what you think of it.
3. Write your own poem, in any form you wish (sonnet, ballad, free verse, etc.), with the same title, ‘Easter, 1916’.
4. Write a short story based on the life of one of people Yeats mentions in ‘Easter, 1916’.
5. Write an article for a national newspaper in which you explore the danger of holding overly rigid views about anything and giving examples of overly rigid views and their negative consequences.