Question

Which woman from Yeats’s life is indirectly criticized in “A Prayer for my Daughter”?

• A. Lady Gregory
• B. Maud Gonne
• C. Georgie Hyde-Lees
• D. Florence Farr

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Maud Gonne

Yeats refers to Maud Gonne when he mentions “the loveliest woman born” whose beauty led to destructive choices. He laments her marriage to John MacBride and her wasted beauty, using her as a cautionary example of excessive beauty without inner virtues like kindness and moderation.