Project Gutenberg 2010-05-23 Public domain in the USA. 204 Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) 1865 1939 Yeats, William Butler The Wild Swans at Coole Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Swans_at_Coole Reading ease score: 71.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Meredith Bach and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Wild Swans at Coole" by W. B. Yeats is a collection of poetry published in the early 20th century. This significant literary work explores themes of beauty, love, and the passage of time, often reflecting on the changes that accompany aging and the melancholic resonance of lost youth. The poems capture a mix of personal reflection and broader observations about human experience. The central poem, "The Wild Swans at Coole," depicts the speaker's contemplation of the beauty and grace of swans he has observed at a lake over many years. This imagery serves as a poignant backdrop for the speaker’s reflections on his own aging and the inevitable changes brought by time. As the speaker contrasts the eternal beauty of the swans with his own diminishing vitality, he evokes a sense of longing and nostalgia for youth and love that feels ever elusive. Other poems in the collection similarly grapple with themes such as loss, memory, and the complexities of relationships, demonstrating Yeats's mastery of emotional depth and vivid imagery. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Poetry PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Poetry 131202 131209 2024-11-13T15:30:37.129452 2023-09-14T08:30:03.932897 text/html text/html 130713 2021-01-06T15:38:24 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 43282 2021-01-06T15:38:24 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 126185 2024-11-13T15:30:46.447887 application/epub+zip 125243 2024-11-13T15:30:41.116416 application/epub+zip 108377 2024-11-13T15:30:39.518445 application/epub+zip 281224 2024-11-13T15:30:50.045897 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 313798 2024-11-13T15:30:45.095977 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 261993 2022-09-15T04:56:23.953491 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 78744 78533 2024-11-13T15:30:36.179441 2023-09-14T08:30:03.110889 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 78643 2021-01-06T15:38:24 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 30276 2021-01-06T15:38:24 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19330 2024-11-13T15:30:50.190879 application/rdf+xml 14407 2024-11-13T15:30:40.087422 image/jpeg 4118 2024-11-13T15:30:39.800441 image/jpeg 118108 2024-11-13T15:30:37.185457 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia