The Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats - Poem Analysis
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In this stanza of ‘The Wild Swans at Coole,’ the speaker contrasts the swans with himself. He has changed so much, and the swans have not changed at all. They are “unwearied still” and still paddle next to the very same lover. He says that “their hearts have not grown old”. Here, the speaker turns h
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- In this stanza of ‘The Wild Swans at Coole,’ the speaker contrasts the swans with himself. He has changed so much, and the swans have not changed at all. They are “unwearied still” and still paddle next to the very same lover. He says that “their hearts have not grown old”.
- Here, the speaker turns his thoughts inward. After watching the “brilliant creatures” he admits that his “heart is sore”. The reason for his aching heart is that everything has changed so much since he first watched those swans take flight nineteen years earlier. It appears in ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’ that when he first saw the swans, they did not...
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