Arrange the following poems by W. B. Yeats in the
chronological order of their year of publication:

A. “Adam’s Curse”
B. “Among School Children”
C. “The Second Coming”
D. “The Wild Swans at Coole”
E. “Under Ben Bulben”

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

The correct option is A, D, C, B, E.

To arrange these famous poems by the Irish poet W. B. Yeats in the chronological order of their publication, we can look at the publication year and context of each poem:

1. A. “Adam’s Curse”: This poem was first published in the monthly literary magazine The Monthly Review in December 1902 and later included in the collection In the Seven Woods (1903).

2. D. “The Wild Swans at Coole”: This poem was first published in the journal The Little Review in June 1917, and then served as the title poem of his 1917 collection The Wild Swans at Coole.

3. C. “The Second Coming”: Written in 1919 in the aftermath of the First World War, this highly famous modernist poem was first published in The Dial in November 1920, and then included in his 1921 collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer.

4. B. “Among School Children”: This poem was written in 1926 following Yeats's official visit to a convent school as a Senator of the Irish Free State. It was published in his landmark collection The Tower in 1928.

5. E. “Under Ben Bulben”: Written in late 1938, this poem serves as a deathbed testament and contains the epitaph carved on Yeats's gravestone. It was published posthumously in his final collection, Last Poems and Two Plays, in 1939.

Comparing the years of publication:
- “Adam’s Curse” (1902)
- “The Wild Swans at Coole” (1917)
- “The Second Coming” (1920)
- “Among School Children” (1928)
- “Under Ben Bulben” (1939)

Thus, the correct chronological sequence is indeed A, D, C, B, E.