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The Wild Swan at Coole by Yeats

In “The Wild Swans at Coole,” by William Butler Yeats integrates amazing images of swans. Yeats describes to us how he has counted the swans on the lake each year. He also tells the reader how much his life has changed over the years, but then yet, the swans have not changed not one bit.
The first four lines of the poem help portray the setting; “The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors still sky” (1-4.) These four lines tell the reade...

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