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The Wild Swans at Coole
- Author
- W.B Yeats born in Dublin and
liked to promote Ireland
- Wrote in traditional poetic forms
- W.B Yeats born in Dublin and
liked to promote Ireland
- Structue
- Regular form - 5, 6 line stanzas
- Stress - empthasis that falls on lines or words
- 1st and 3rd lines have 4 stresses and 2nd 3rd
and 6th lines have 3 stresses and the 5th line
has 5 stresses
- 1st and 3rd lines have 4 stresses and 2nd 3rd
and 6th lines have 3 stresses and the 5th line
has 5 stresses
- Rhyme scheme in each stanza is abcbdd
- Regular form - 5, 6 line stanzas
- Sound
- Repitition creates regular and
simple sound helped by use of full
rhyme
- Short linens slow us
down and create an air
of calm
- "sky" "stones" "swans" soft sibilance
to create an air of peace and
tranquil image
- "bell-beat" swans noise
and church bells passing
time
- Repitition creates regular and
simple sound helped by use of full
rhyme
- Imagery
- Beautiful description of
swans "beautiful creatures"
unlike himself
- No complex language with a
simple theme show an everyday
image
- Lake is central to the setting with repitition of
"water" to reflect scene
- "autum beauty""the nineteenth
autumn""alls changed" time passing
- "scatter" contrast to earlier stillness
- "trod with a lighter tred" hopeful before but not now
- Beautiful description of
swans "beautiful creatures"
unlike himself
- Themes
- Time
- Whatever the circumstances
humanity cant conquer time
which saddens Yeats
- Whatever the circumstances
humanity cant conquer time
which saddens Yeats
- Change
- Change is inevitable
and maybe for the
worst. Yeats shows
swans as unchanging
unlike himself
- Change is inevitable
and maybe for the
worst. Yeats shows
swans as unchanging
unlike himself
- Relationships
- Change in Yeats'
relationship which the
swans contrast "unwearied
still, lover by lover"
- Change in Yeats'
relationship which the
swans contrast "unwearied
still, lover by lover"
- Time
- Comparison
- Cold Knap Lake
- Centred around memories
- Lake as setting and
metaphor for memory
- Swans used
as a symbol
- Search for truth/knowledge
- Centred around memories
- Cold Knap Lake
- About
- Yeats spent summers at Coole
Park and enjoyed taking walks
around the grounds
- Poet narrator has come to
the end of another summer
at Coole
- It is now Autumn an he reflects on how
quick time passes and how helpless we are
to change the past
- The swans are unchanged over time and the
passing time makes him see changes in himself
which upset him
- Yeats spent summers at Coole
Park and enjoyed taking walks
around the grounds
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