The Tower (poetry collection)
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The Tower is a 1928 poetry collection by W. B. Yeats that gathers many of his major later poems, reflecting on aging, Irish politics, and mystical vision.
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| The Tower (poetry collection) canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Tower (poetry collection) Context triple: [A Vision, relatedTo, The Tower (poetry collection)]
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A.
The Winding Stair and Other Poems
The Winding Stair and Other Poems is a 1933 poetry collection by W.B. Yeats that reflects his mature style, blending mystical symbolism with meditations on aging, history, and spiritual transformation.
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B.
Twenty-Five Poems
Twenty-Five Poems is an early collection of intensely lyrical and visionary poetry by Dylan Thomas that helped establish his reputation as a major 20th-century poet.
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C.
Glanmore Sonnets
Glanmore Sonnets is a sequence of autobiographical sonnets by Seamus Heaney reflecting on rural life, memory, and creative renewal at his retreat in Glanmore, County Wicklow.
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D.
Selected Poems
Selected Poems is a collection showcasing the lyrical, philosophical, and deeply introspective verse of Russian poet Arseny Tarkovsky.
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E.
Selected Poems
Selected Poems is a celebrated collection of Marianne Moore’s poetry that helped establish her reputation for precise language, wit, and innovative verse forms.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Tower (poetry collection) Target entity description: The Tower is a 1928 poetry collection by W. B. Yeats that gathers many of his major later poems, reflecting on aging, Irish politics, and mystical vision.
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A.
The Winding Stair and Other Poems
The Winding Stair and Other Poems is a 1933 poetry collection by W.B. Yeats that reflects his mature style, blending mystical symbolism with meditations on aging, history, and spiritual transformation.
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B.
Twenty-Five Poems
Twenty-Five Poems is an early collection of intensely lyrical and visionary poetry by Dylan Thomas that helped establish his reputation as a major 20th-century poet.
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C.
Glanmore Sonnets
Glanmore Sonnets is a sequence of autobiographical sonnets by Seamus Heaney reflecting on rural life, memory, and creative renewal at his retreat in Glanmore, County Wicklow.
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D.
Selected Poems
Selected Poems is a collection of verse by American poet and critic John Crowe Ransom, showcasing his influential work in the New Criticism movement and his tightly crafted, intellectually rigorous poetry.
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E.
Selected Poems
Selected Poems is a collection showcasing the lyrical, philosophical, and deeply introspective verse of Russian poet Arseny Tarkovsky.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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poetry collection ⓘ |
| author | W. B. Yeats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsPoem |
A Man Young and Old
NERFINISHED
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A Prayer for My Daughter NERFINISHED ⓘ Among School Children NERFINISHED ⓘ Leda and the Swan NERFINISHED ⓘ Meditations in Time of Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen NERFINISHED ⓘ Sailing to Byzantium NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cat and the Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fool by the Roadside NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hero, the Girl, and the Fool NERFINISHED ⓘ The New Faces NERFINISHED ⓘ The Phases of the Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rose Tree NERFINISHED ⓘ The Three Bushes NERFINISHED ⓘ The Three Hermits NERFINISHED ⓘ The Three Monuments NERFINISHED ⓘ The Three Songs to the One Burden NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tower (poem) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wheel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| criticalReputation | one of Yeats's most important collections ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Lady Gregory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | print ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Winding Stair and Other Poems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
lyric poetry
ⓘ
modernist poetry ⓘ |
| hasForm | verse ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Byzantine art and culture
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Irish Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ Yeats's occult studies ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Modernism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
Irish politics
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aging ⓘ art and mortality ⓘ mysticism ⓘ personal memory ⓘ violence and history ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploration of old age and artistic transcendence
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integration of personal, political, and mystical themes ⓘ |
| originalAudience | English-language poetry readers ⓘ |
| partOf | W. B. Yeats's late poetry ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Wild Swans at Coole (1919 collection) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1928 ⓘ |
| publisher | Macmillan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reflectsAuthorLifePeriod | Yeats's later years ⓘ |
| settingElement | Thoor Ballylee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titlePoem | The Tower (poem) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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