Question

In “A Prayer for my Daughter,” what does the “hidden tree” symbolize?

• A. Nationalism
• B. The poet’s wife
• C. A sheltered, flourishing, modest life
• D. The Abbey Theatre

Answer 1

Answer:

C. A sheltered, flourishing, modest life

Yeats hopes his daughter will grow like a hidden tree, representing a life rooted in tradition, modesty, and order — safe from the destructive forces of vanity, opinion, or excessive beauty that could bring chaos.