1. The Poetry of Yeats
... of the realm of art, our memories fraught with contradiction, our current struggle with meaning and the processes of time and decay. His poems, 'Wild Swans at Coole' explores the conflicting tension of perpetual youth and our inevitable mortality while his great philosophical poem 'Among School Children' takes this dichotomy ... with the elusive nature of immortality and time is often brought into sharp relief when we are brought face to face with our own mortality. 'Wild Swans at Coole' provides a poignant reverie on the poet's own transient existence and his growing awa...
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