The Wild Swans at Coole (analysis essay)

... The Wild Swans at Coole The Wild Swans, written by William Yeats is a poem about how the swans inhabit Coole park. However, this is just a metaphor for what the poem is actually about, the poem really touches on something much deeper - lost time and unaquired love. The poem is written in a melancholy tone which is suggestive of how he is feeling towards life and especially his love. On a more personal level, the poem reflects Yeats' unanswered love for Maud Gonne. Yeats sets a still and weathered scene in the first stanza. The word autumn in the first line symbolizes something coming to an end, and this is further emphasized by the time of day, "under the October twilight the water/ Mirrors a still sky." This lack of movement reminds the reader of death and emptiness. In the last line Yeats mentions the subjects of the poem, "nine-and-fifty

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