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The Lake Isle of InnisfreeThese two poems by William Butler Yeats are perfect examples of his early tributes to his native country, Ireland, in which he reminisces about his childhood memories and subtly laments the loss of...
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The Wild Swans at Coole"The Wild Swans at Coole" is a lyric poem in which Yeats uses the beautiful imagery of the swans in their natural setting to reflect on how he himself has changed over the years. The autumn season...
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William Butler YeatsIn order to compare and contrast William Butler Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (to be known as LII) and "The Wild Swans at Coole" (to be known as WSC) rhyme, meter, poetic devices, and meaning...
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The Wild Swans at CooleYeats uses the first stanza to establish the elegiac tone of the poem--that is, this is a poem essentially about loss--and it is important to prepare the reader to understand the speaker's feeling,...
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The Wild Swans at CooleFirst, the question is ambiguous, since the whole collection of poems was called “The Wild Swans at Coole.” Secondly, the question answers itself: the symbolism is used as a symbol. But...
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The Wild Swans at CooleI don't necessarily think this poem shows that Yeats is imagining his own death. However, it is clear that has he revisits this location where he had visited so long before, he is struck by how he...
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The Wild Swans at Coole"The Wild Swans at Coole," by William Butler Yeats, may seem at first glance to be a traditional poem about the beauty of nature. Yeats notes the trees "in their autumn beauty," and the...
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The Wild Swans at CooleOkay, 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...
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The Wild Swans at CooleYeats 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...
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The Wild Swans at CooleAutumn 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...
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The Wild Swans at CooleA 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...