... 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 he reaches the "twilight" of ... life. Yeats' confinement within the metaphoric 'dry' 'woodland paths' of time and the seasons is contrasted with the mysteriously changeless swans. Their ...

• Word Count: 892
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Graduate

... has a rhythmic flow. The poet deftly analyses the themes of music and individual reaction to music in the poem. The poem is set in the narrator's house during the afternoon of the first few days of the month of October, when a blind piano tuner comes to fix the piano and after an afternoon filled with music the setting reaches the night time when everything is still and ... 's dead and gone, gently down the stream." Observing the pieces she plays that she is an intermediate level piano player as all the pieces are Level 6/7 pieces. From there on the whole afternoon is absorbed in the app...

• Word Count: 1281
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Graduate