The Wild Sweans At Coole

CLASE INTERACTIVA 2
Week 2: 14.02.2013

W.B. Yeats: “The Wild Swans at Coole”, “A Prayer for myDaughter”, “The Second Coming”

GRUPO A: “The WildSwans at Coole”
1. Rhythm and rhyme scheme of the poem.
“The Wild Swans at Coole” is written in a very regular stanza form: five six-line stanzas, eachwritten in a roughly iambic meter, with the first and third lines in tetrameter, the second, fourth, and sixth lines in trimeter, and the fifth line inpentameter. The rhyme scheme in each stanza is ABCBDD.
2. Poetic voice: discuss tone and mood
The sounds used in the poem also help create the solemn toneof the poem, it is often repeated as well like “lover by lover”, these liquid sounds are soft and slow, going at a pace akin to a funeral procession.Other sounds in the poem are also slow and soft such as “e” and “u” as in “The trees are in their autumn beauty,” The sounds of the poem are effective as thesoftness added to the poem as a whole helps the reader to appreciate the solemnity and heartache of it which adds to the atmosphere of loss and melancholy.3. Structure of the poem: is it related to its content in any way?
4. Subject matter
5. Imagery of the poem

GRUPO B: “A Prayer for myDaughter”
1. Rhythm and rhyme scheme of poem
2. Poetic voice: discuss tone and mood
3. Subject matter
4. Imagery of poem

GRUPO C: “The SecondComing”
1. Rhythm and rhyme scheme of poem
2. Poetic voice: discuss tone and mood
3. Structure of poem
4. Subject matter
5. Imagery