1. The Poetry of Yeats
... The poem is structured in 5 stanzas, each consisting 6 lines, along with a rough iambic meter. He begins in the present with a symbolic/metaphorical reference to 'autumn' years of life observing that "All's changed" as he reaches the "twilight" of life. Yeats' confinement within the metaphoric ... as an image of regret augmented by the aural harshness of the plosive letter. The nature and persona's recognition of mortality brings the poem to a sombre conclusion as the physical distance between the poet and swans represents the vast metaphysical gap between the mortal and the immorta...
- Word Count: 892
- Approx Pages: 4
- Grade Level: Graduate