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Answer the following questions in 30-40 words.
What are the contrasts in "The Wild Swans at Coole" by W.B. Yeats?
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Solution
W. B. Yeats establishes several fundamental contrasts past to present, present to future, bound to free. Poet is keenly aware of his ageing while the swans seemed to have not changed at all.
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