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        <title><![CDATA[Okay, let's start with taking the poem stanza by stanza and trying to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Okay, let's start with taking the poem stanza by stanza and trying to determine what each means:

"THE TREES are in their autumn beauty,   The woodland paths are dry,   Under the October twilight the water   Mirrors a still sky;   Upon the brimming water among the stones
Are nine and fifty swans."

It's a beautiful dusk one fall day.  The leaves are changing color and the sky is still.  The waters of a body of water below are reflecting the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Summarize the poem "Wild Swans at Coole," by William Yeates.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Summarize the poem "Wild Swans at Coole," by William Yeates.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 6 Oct 2009 17:58:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Explain the autumn dryand twilight reflect thes atate of mind at this...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Explain the autumn dryand twilight reflect thes atate of mind at this point in his life]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:38:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yeats addresses two different contrasts in his poem "The Wild Swans at...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Yeats addresses two different contrasts in his poem "The Wild Swans at Coole".  The first is between himself in the present, and when he first wlaked along the water where the swans are found.  The second is between himself and the swans.
The poet says, "The nineteenth autumn has come upon me since I first made my count", meaning that nineteen years have passed since he first came to see the swans.  He realizes that "All's changed since I,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:37:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are the contrasts in "The Wild Swans at Coole" by W.B. Yeats?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are the contrasts in "The Wild Swans at Coole" by W.B. Yeats?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:33:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Autumn has been used for centuries as a symbol for middle age, decline...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Autumn has been used for centuries as a symbol for middle age, decline and fatigue. When Yeats writes, "The trees are in their autumn beauty. . ." he is setting up an atmosphere of a change between the time of summer's beauty and the coldness and death of winter. The poem was first written in 1916, when Yeats was 51 years old. He was not married and had no children and he was beginning to think that "life had passed him by". Thus, Yeats is...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:12:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is the autumn important in the poem The Wild Swans at Coole by W B Yeats?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is the autumn important in the poem The Wild Swans at Coole by W B Yeats?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A good question. The poem is based on contrasts between the past and the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A good question. The poem is based on contrasts between the past and the present, and between the narrator when young and the narrator now, which is 19 years later. As the poem indicates, this is a large and sad change:&quot;I have looked upon those brilliant creatures, And now my heart is sore. All’s changed since I, hearing at twilight,&quot;  Everything has changed, from the speaker's heart on. Therefore, from hopeful and loving to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:23:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In &quot;The Wild Swans at Coole,&quot; the poem is partly based on a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In &quot;The Wild Swans at Coole,&quot; the poem is partly based on a contrast between the speaker and the swans. What are some other contrasts?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:14:15 PST</pubDate>
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