The Wild Swans At Cole Analysis

William Butler Yeats was rewarded with Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. He was one of the greatest poets during that time. His personal and national experiences were described through his themes, symbols, and images in his poetry. Yeats’ poems were full with Byzantium art, Greek mythology, English literature, European politics and Christianity symbols. He believed that politics and art were naturally related. Moreover, he used his poems to voiced his attitude toward Irish and also to teach people about Irish history. Lead by his believe that art could have a political function, in 1922 Yeats became a senator in Irish parliament. Yeats’ was also very interested in mysticism. He believed that events were predetermined. For instance, he believed that history was determinate by destiny and that destiny shows its plan when you connect with the divine. The divine has many images in Yeats’s poetry: once literally, another time abstractly. When Yeats started to write he was a romantic poet and slowly moved into a modernist poet. In the beginning of his writings he was focus

Each line is in iambic meter and its first and third lines are written in tetrameter, second, fourth and sixth lines in trimester and in the fifth line in pentameter. The poem starts with trees that are “in their autumn beauty”. The protagonist, who grows old, goes on dry woodland roads to the water that still reflects the October sunset. Then he saw that there were fifty-nine swans and this reminds him that nineteen years have passed since he counted the swans. The speaker also says that he is sad, because after nineteen autumns of watching the swans, everything in his life has changed. But the swans did not change and did not get old. Now, when they fly over the water they look beautiful and mysterious and the protagonist wonders where they will build their nests, when he one day will wake up and fond that they flew