"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." The above lines have been taken from ?
Correct answer: C. The Second Coming
- A. The Waste Land
- B. Tintern Abbey
- C. The Second Coming
- D. Prayer for My Daughter
Explanation
These lines come from Yeats’s “The Second Coming,” where the collapse of order is shown through the weakness of the good and the violent confidence of the bad. The other options are poems by Wordsworth, Eliot and Yeats respectively, but not the source of this quotation.
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