This recognition is particularly evident in his allusion to the Celtic myth, "The Children of Lir" in his poem "The Wild Swan at Coole". Yeats' interest in Celtic mythology was clear in many of his earlier works and showed his parochial desires to elevate the history and culture of early Ireland. "The bell-beat of their wings" references the tolling of the bell that would free the children who had been turned to swans by a jealous Celtic princess Aiofe. ...

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