The Wild Swans at Coole is the name of two collections of poetry by W. B. Yeats, published in 1917 and 1919.
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The Question and Answer section for The Wild Swans at Coole is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
. In the poem, the things that intimate eternity are the swans, which he observes continuing to live and love as they always have, unaware of the passage of time. The swans' love for each other, and their passion and dreams, never die. (Now it...
In the last stanza, the speaker observes the swans resting calmly on the water, and he takes in their majesty. He wonders where they will go after he is gone, knowing that they will continue to fly regardless of what happens to him, and that they...
The rhyme scheme is ABCBDD.
