Project Gutenberg 2010-05-23 Public domain in the USA. 314 Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) 1865 1939 Yeats, William Butler The Wild Swans at Coole Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Swans_at_Coole Produced by Meredith Bach and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Wild Swans at Coole" by W. B. Yeats is a collection of poetry published in the early 20th century. This significant literary work explores themes of beauty, love, and the passage of time, often reflecting on the changes that accompany aging and the melancholic resonance of lost youth. The poems capture a mix of personal reflection and broader observations about human experience. The central poem, "The Wild Swans at Coole," depicts the speaker's contemplation of the beauty and grace of swans he has observed at a lake over many years. This imagery serves as a poignant backdrop for the speaker’s reflections on his own aging and the inevitable changes brought by time. As the speaker contrasts the eternal beauty of the swans with his own diminishing vitality, he evokes a sense of longing and nostalgia for youth and love that feels ever elusive. Other poems in the collection similarly grapple with themes such as loss, memory, and the complexities of relationships, demonstrating Yeats's mastery of emotional depth and vivid imagery. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 71.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Poetry PR Text Category: Poetry Category: British Literature Nobel Prizes in Literature 131325 2025-10-13T08:59:35.375828 text/html 130713 2021-01-06T15:38:24 text/html 126273 2025-10-13T08:59:43.559804 application/epub+zip 125247 2025-10-13T08:59:38.730815 application/epub+zip 108380 2025-10-13T08:59:37.315875 application/epub+zip 281182 2025-10-13T08:59:46.411818 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 313796 2025-10-13T08:59:42.183827 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 261993 2022-09-15T04:56:23.953491 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 78744 2025-10-13T08:59:34.721851 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 78643 2021-01-06T15:38:24 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18512 2025-10-13T08:59:46.550810 application/rdf+xml 14407 2025-10-13T08:59:37.823836 image/jpeg 4118 2025-10-13T08:59:37.568851 image/jpeg 43282 2021-01-06T15:38:24 application/octet-stream application/zip 30276 2021-01-06T15:38:24 application/octet-stream application/zip 118142 2025-10-13T08:59:35.391843 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia