1. The Poetry of Yeats
... 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 awareness of the passing of time, setting up a seemingly irreconcilable gap between the beauty and vigour of lost youth and the imperfections of aging. 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 ... ...
- Word Count: 892
- Approx Pages: 4
- Grade Level: Graduate