... ' takes this dichotomy further in an often despairing quest for meaning in the face of 'sixty winters' of pain. The element of art is not served as a solution for the tensions and arguments within Yeats heart, but instead offers him the possibility of some form of transcendent solace for the dualities of his heart. The human obsession 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 gr...

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