ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -"The Wild Swans at Coole” is a lyric poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). Written between 1916 and early 1917, the poem was first published in the June 1917 issue of the Little Review, and became the title poem in the Yeats’s 1917 and 1919 collections The Wild Swans at Coole.

Detailed explanation-2: -His first significant poem was “The Island of Statues", a fantasy work that took Edmund Spenser and Shelley for its poetic models. The piece was serialized in the Dublin University Review. Yeats wished to include it in his first collection, but it was deemed too long, and in fact, was never republished in his lifetime.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Wild Swans at Coole, poem by William Butler Yeats, printed in The Little Review (June 1917) and published in a collection titled The Wild Swans at Coole (1917; enlarged, 1919). Comprising five six-line stanzas, this mature, reflective work addresses the onslaught of old age.

Detailed explanation-4: -Are nine-and-fifty swans. Upon their clamorous wings.

Detailed explanation-5: -In this poem, ‘The Wild Swans at Coole, ’ Yeats explores the theme of the frailty of human life through his speaker. This particular speaker becomes keenly aware of his own aging as he watches the same swans that he has watched year after year.