Wild Swans at Coole

Question 1

theme of solitute and estrangement

Answer 1

‘i have watched upon these beautifuel creatures’
‘nine-and-fifty swans’

Question 2

theme natural beauty

Answer 2

‘october twilight’
‘nighnteenth autumn has come’
‘trees are in their autumn beauty’

Question 3

them,e of growing old

Answer 3

‘trod with a lighter step’
‘upon what rushes will they build’
‘build by what lakes edge or pool’

Question 4

theme of bachelordom

Answer 4

he charts the ‘cold…stream’

Question 5

visual imagery

Answer 5

‘ocotber twighlt’
‘ trees are in their august beauty’

Question 6

symbolism+ explanation

Answer 6

‘the bell beat of the swans’ the bell beat is symbolic of the final moments of the anglo-irish arisocrasy to the new, yemergeing ascedant Irish merchant classes

Question 7

aurual imagery

Answer 7

‘clamourous wings’

Question 8

assonance and its effect

Answer 8

“upon the brimming water, among the stones” the repeated vowel creates a mysical, rythemic air to the poem and creates a reflective and calm mood