1. The Poetry of Yeats
... 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 possibility of an Edenic existence. Yeats alludes to the unity of human existence into 'the leaf, the blossom' and 'the bole' which compromises his tensions with the acceptance for natural order and passage of life. He finds unity for these irreconcilable opposites ... still" provides a moment...
- Word Count: 892
- Approx Pages: 4
- Grade Level: Graduate