Wild Swans at Coole - Assignment Example

In the poem, he mentioned “All's changed, changed utterly" which meant that he recollected the past and compared the feeling he had the first time he saw the place. The Autumn setting conveyed as symbolic meaning since autumn in a person’s life connotes old age. At the same time, Autumn is the season when one can see the still and silent October night. The sky is clear and the lake mirrors the reflection of the beautiful swans. This kind of imagery provokes sadness and memories from the past.

The swans in the poem fly by pairs which connotes that they are lovers and that they have the passion in life in which Yeats does not have anymore. Contrastingly, he had become weary from all the journeys in his life. Yeat’s sense of loss is conveyed by the line “And now my heart is sore” and “Alls changed since”. Things have changed since the First World War broke within those years that Yeats was not able to visit the lake. Like any individual who experienced war in their lifetime, Yeats felt loss for people and places that existed before they were ravaged by the war.

 After nineteen autumns, Yeats have witnessed again the same splendor shown by the swans in the lake; however, it was Yeats's perspectives of things that changed.