Free Write: Week Three

The set of poems we read are really different from what we have read. I could not imagine reading these poems separately and trying to combine the techniques and style such as Andrew Hudgins did in 2001. I really would not imagine anyone combine this two very unlike poems. I enjoyed them separately but together they do not make sense to me.
I enjoyed William Butler Yeats, “The Wild Swans at Coole" describes a young man's disappointment about love. He walks down Coole Park in Galway, Ireland. Through the introduction in the beginning of the poems we learn that Coole comes from an Irish word meaning "a niche" or "a retreat." That is exactly what he was doing retreating from his daily routine. He came to reminisce about his rejection of the lady he loved. He compares the 59 swans to himself. He says that the swans travel in pairs but the 59th swan is left without a partner just like he has. This is a strong metaphor comparing himself to the swans. This poem also illustrates what is happening around him and how he feels. In 1916 World War I was occurring. We can infer this from when he says "All's changed since I, hearing at twilight" The swans will go some place else but he stays there by himself like always. "But now they drift on the still water"...."To find they have flown away?"
The only similarity that Yeat's and Brooks's poem, "We Real Cool" have in common is the resemblance of "Coole" and "Cool." In this poem there is a different message from the first. In Brooks's poem we find a more promising idea, lets cease the day because we will die soon. Although they only play pool all day and lay back but at least they are not depressed like in Yeats's poem.