Bearla: Yeats - The Wild Swans at Coole

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1st stanza has a calm, peaceful tone, assonance and alliteration

“the water mirrors a still sky”

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2nd stanza is melancholic in tone

“the nineteenth autumn has come upon me.”

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3rd stanza is bleak

“all’s changed.”

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5th stanza is uncertain

“to find they have flown away?”

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Contrast of swans vs Yeats

“their hearts have not grown old.”

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cacophony

“scatter wheeling in great broken rings.”

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onomatopoeia brings swans to life

“clamorous” “scatter”

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personification of the swans

“passion or conquest”

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repetition

“my heart is sore” “their hearts have not grown old”