Quiz: forging modernism 12: modernism

read the excerpt from “the wild swans at coole” by william butler yeats.

the trees are in their autumn beauty,
the woodland paths are dry,
under the october twilight the water
mirrors a still sky;
upon the brimming water among the stones
are nine-and-fifty swans.

the nineteenth autumn has come upon me
since i first made my count;
i saw, before i had well finished,
all suddenly mount
and scatter wheeling in great broken rings
upon their clamorous wings.

while the speaker in “the wild swans at coole” is counting the swans, what does he witness?
a
the swans honk that he is intruding
b
the swans approach him
c
the swans swim away
d
the swans take flight