问答题
Please read the following poem and make comments in about 300 words.(50 points)The Wild Swans at Coole *The trees are in their autumn beauty,The woodland paths are dry,Under the October twilight the waterMirrors a still sky;Upon the brimming water among the stonesAre nine-and-fifty swans.The nineteenth autumn has come upon meSince I first made my count;I saw, before I had well finished,All suddenly mountAnd scatter wheeling in great broken ringsUpon their clamorous wings.I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,And now my heart is sore.All"s changed since I, hearing at twilight,The first time on this shore,The bell-beat of their wings above my head,Trod with a lighter tread.Unwearied still, lover by lover,They paddle in the coldCompanionable streams or climb the air;Their hearts have not grown old;Passion or conquest, wander where they will,Attend upon them still.But now they drift on the still water,Mysterious, beautiful;Among what rushes will they build,By what lake"s edge of poolDelight men"s eyes when I awake some dayTo find they have flown away?* Coole was the estate of Lady Augusta Gregory, the poet"s friend and patron, who encouraged the young poet and made her house a second home to him.
【正确答案】正确答案：In this poem, the speaker walks down the dry woodland paths to the water, which mirrors the still October twilight of the sky. Upon the water float "nine-and-fifty swans". The speaker says that nineteen years have passed since he first came to the water and counted the swans. This poem records that encounter and Yeats" feeling as well. The poem is written in a very regular stanza form: five six-line stanzas, each written in a roughly iambic meter and the rhyme scheme in each stanza is abcbdd. In the simple form and narrative of the poem, Yeats expresses the pain of changing. Yeats is the great poet of old age, writing honestly and with astonishing force about the pain of time"s passage. This poem is his most moving testaments to the heart-ache of living in a time when "all"s changed. " And when Yeats says "All"s changed, changed utterly" after the nineteen years since he first saw the swans, he means it— the First World War and the Irish civil war both occurred during these years. The simple narrative of the poem, recounting the poet"s trips to the lake at Augusta Gregory"s Coole Park residence to count the swans on the water, is given its solemn serenity by the beautiful nature imagery of the early stanzas, the plaintive tone of the poet, and the carefully constructed poetic stanza—the two trimeter lines, which give the poet an opportunity to utter short, heartfelt statements before a long silence ensured by the short line(" Their hearts have not grown old..."). The speaker, caught up in the gentle pain of personal memory, contrasts sharply with the swans, which are treated as symbols of the essential; their hearts have not grown old; they are still attended by passion and conquest.