Yeats - The Wild Swans At Coole Flashcards
1
Q
Nature/Natural setting; serenity, calm,beautiful.
A
The Trees are in their autumn beauty.
2
Q
Yeats youth is gone
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All’s changed since I, hearing at twilight
3
Q
Yeats feels old/ feels the passing of time
A
And scatter wheeling in great broken rings
4
Q
The swans are not affected by the troubles in life
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Unwearied still, lover by lover
5
Q
A line that conveys the flight of the birds/ imagery of the swans in flight.
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Companionable streams or climb the air
6
Q
Yeats wonders what will become of him/ the swans in time to come.
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Delight men’s eyes when I awake some day
To find they have flown away?
7
Q
Example or alliteration used in the poem
A
The bell-beat of their wings above my head.
8
Q
Example of assonance used in the poem.
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And scatter wheeling in great broken rings
