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    author speaks about life in his poem and about the fact that everything will happen again‚ even thought without our presence. The theme of the infinity of the beauty‚ freedom and the impossibility to stop the time may be obviously seen‚ too. The swans are “wild”‚ just like the author used to be. The poem has the structure of five stanzas‚ each consisting out of six lines. The rhyme scheme of each of the stanza is the same and is a-b-c-b-d-d and the meter is iambic. The rhythm is not regular and is

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    In the opening stanza of “The Wild Swans at Coole”‚ Yeats contrasts the environment which surrounds him with the brimming water of the lake. He describes the setting as being late autumn‚ a period where natural things are in the process of dying and notes that “the woodland paths are dry”‚ perhaps symbolic for how Yeats felt about this stage in his life. On the other hand‚ the lake is the complete opposite: full of life and movement. Where the environment symbolizes Yeats growing old and weary‚ the

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    “The Wild Swans at Coole” Summary With the trees “in their autumn beauty‚” the speaker walks down the dry woodland paths to the water‚ which mirrors the still October twilight of the sky. Upon the water float “nine-and-fifty swans.” The speaker says that nineteen years have passed since he first came to the water and counted the swans; that first time‚ before he had “well finished‚” he saw the swans mount up into the sky and scatter‚ “whelling in great broken rings / Upon their clamorous

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    The Wild Swans at Coole The Wild Swans at Coole by W.B Yeats is one of musicality as it is a direct expression of personal feelings‚ identified as the author’s. The lyrical poem includes three main subjects: setting‚ serving as a correlative to these feelings‚ Swans as the trigger‚ and the poet himself. Written in loosened iambic pentameter and consisting of five six-line stanzas rhymed ‘abcbdd’‚ the poem’s reflective and melancholic mood reflect the time of the poems first appearance. During

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    transformation. Similarly in “Wild Swans at Coole”‚ Yeats paints a melancholic landscape of unchanging beauty. The personal context of the poetry‚ converse to “Easter 1916”‚ aids in emphasising Yeats’ consciousness of the ideas of impermanence and timelessness. Yeats starkly contrasts his own “heart which is sore” swan’s hearts which “have not grown old”‚ stressing a tension between youth and age. Yeats portrays his own transient mortality in relation to his age‚ juxtaposed to the swans’ youth‚ a symbol of

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    Poetry Commentary: The Wild Swans at Coole by Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats is‚ as the title suggests‚ a poem about a flock of Swans inhabiting the lake at Augusta Gregory ’s Coole Park residence. However‚ the theme of the poem is change and unrequited love‚ presumably inspired by the transformation Europe‚ and Yeats himself‚ underwent in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The poem is written in a consistently contemplative and plaintive tone‚ and it seems the poet is experiencing

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    Easter 1916‚ Wild Swans at Coole and Second Coming The timeless essence and the ambivalence in Yeats’ poems urge the reader’s response to relevant themes in society today. This enduring power of Yeats’ poetry‚ influenced by the Mystic and pagan influences is embedded within the textual integrity drawn from poetic techniques and structure when discussing relevant contextual concerns. “Wild Swans at Coole”‚ “Easter 1916” and “The Second Coming” encapsulate the romanticism in his early poetry

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    of man" and this concept is reflected deeply in his poetic works as he expresses concerns and ideas of close regard to himself and makes them memorable to the reader through his linguistic craftsmanship and mastery of poetic techniques. The Wild Swans At Coole (hereafter WS) examines the theme of intimate change and personal yearning‚ whilst The Second Coming (hereafter SC) examines change in context with cultural dissolution and fear. It is because Yeats’ poetry is so deeply grounded in his own human

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    Expected change and unrequited love show up as major themes in William Yeats ’ poem The Wild Swans at Coole. Yeats sets up the poem in the first stanza to give a general feeling of sadness by describing "The trees are in their autumn beauty" and "The woodland paths are dry" (1-2). Autumn represents a time when nature starts dying and the dying leaves scatter where Yeats is walking. The reader also gets a general feel of an aged surrounding when Yeats mentions "a still sky" (4). The stillness of

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    Wild Swans by Alice Munro In the story “Wild Swans‚” Rose is learning about the destructive potential of relationships at home. The story mainly takes place on a train journey. Rose is traveling to Toronto by herself with ten dollars ¨in a little cloth bag which she sewed to the strap of Rose´s slip´. Before she leaves‚ Flo‚ Roseś step-mom‚ tells Rose to be careful‚ everyone wants to hurt you. Rose does not believe anything Flo warns her about in the community of Toronto. The reason she is going

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