1. The Poetry of Yeats
... 'the leaf, the blossom' and 'the bole' which compromises his tensions with the acceptance for natural order and passage of life. He finds unity for these irreconcilable opposites in the tension between the form and freedom of poetry and the artistic realm. In 'Wild Swans at Coole', the repetition of "still" provides a moment of artistic stillness between the "wild" energy within the swans in contrast to the apathy and ... despondency of Yeats and the passage of time. The "still" surroundings when juxtaposed against the onomatopoeic use of plosives of " ... ...
- Word Count: 892
- Approx Pages: 4
- Grade Level: Graduate