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The Wild Swans at Coole In The Wild Swans at Coole, Yeats recreates a moment of inspiration and awe that he experienced in his youth. He is adept at recalling the feel of that particular evening and the 'October twilight'. He includes details of the trees and woodland paths as if retracing his steps in his memory. The image of the stillness of the 'brimming water' and the sky mirrored in it is particularly effective. The stillness is contrasted with the sudden movement and breaking of the breathless serenity as the swans 'suddenly mount and scatter wheeling'. The swans are 'wild' and have that untamed beauty and freedom that resists the poet's attempts to capture them in his mind's eye. The 'broken rings' that the birds form contrasts with the symmetry of the mirrored sky. They embody a kind of natural power and strength. The poet recalls the sound of their...

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