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The Wild Swans at Coole
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Mind Map on The Wild Swans at Coole, created by eviehewitt on 20/03/2015.
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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
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
Rhyme scheme in each stanza is abcbdd
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
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
Themes
Time
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
Relationships
Change in Yeats' relationship which the swans contrast "unwearied still, lover by lover"
Comparison
Cold Knap Lake
Centred around memories
Lake as setting and metaphor for memory
Swans used as a symbol
Search for truth/knowledge
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
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