1. The Poetry of Yeats
... ;among the stones' and on the 'brimming water' who by nature are uninhibited to 'climb the air' The alliteration of the hard 'c' sound emphasises Yeats frustration, 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 immortal ... ;sixty-year old smiling' man, catalysing his reverie. His classical reference to The 'Ledaean Body' conjures up th...
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