Yeats poetry has the unique ability to unify the dichotomous aspects of human existence in a lyrical manifestation of the realm of art, our memories fraught with contradiction, our current struggle with meaning and the processes of time and decay. ... The human obsession with the elusive nature of immortality and time is often brought into sharp relief when we are brought face to face with our own mortality. ... The nature and persona's recognition of mortality brings the poem to a sombre conclusion as the physical distance between the poet and swans represents the vast metaphysical gap ...

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Scholars uphold works from the Literary Canon with the highest regard and proceed to manifest these works into school curriculum for literary study due to their powerful influential nature and complex ideas embedded in these texts. ... The Literary Canon is regularly refined and filtered with new regulations to advocate those texts encompassed with profound messages and their ability to handle delicate issues such as the human condition and the evolution of cultural values that are still prevalent to this day, this exemplifies the notion that some of the beliefs that we upheld in our modern ag...

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Another aspect observable here is the harmony of nature with music as notes of music or sound only enhance the things around them, while having a big impact as we can imagine the ripples of water following the "single lucid drop of water that stars the speaker's dream.... And the way he has ended the poem is outstanding, how he describes the cat's movements as such which only free animals in dark can do and how that one stroke by the cat replaces all human noises such as that of the car and lingers on in the narrator's mind "...and a single lucid drop of water stars my...

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