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Summary The Song of Wandering Aengus
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- English (JVENG)
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- St Benedict's College
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The Song of Wandering AengusWilliam Butler Yeats
Saltic Mythology.
0. Aengus – God of love and Beauty, He stayed young forever and is also
the God of Youth.
Wondering – Constantly looking/lost.
Yeats – in love with a women who rejected him.
1. “I” – shows that this poem is a narrative poem.
Hazel wood – magical place in Irish Myths. (Gives the poem a mystical
theme.)
2. His thoughts burning in his mind. He has a burning curiosity.
3. Wand – further association with magic. NB: fishing and rods.
Hazel wand out of hazel wood – mystic.
4. Berry instead of bait – shows how this poem is different from the
others.
5. Moths were flying around him.
6. Comparing math to the stars as they are both related to light.
Moths flapping wings – stars flickering lights. Shows that it was
mystical at night.
St 1. Moths are drawn to the fire in his mind.
It is a warning of passion and fear.
9-12. The fish that he has caught has now turned into a girl.
11. “But” – shows a change in the poem.
12. It speaks and it knows who it is.
9-13. Just as the swan became a girl, the fish also became a girl. Showing the
process of metamorphosis.
14. This girl (Moudegonne) reminds Yeats about apple blossoms too.
Symbol of his love for Moudegonne.
15. This line links to line 12.
15- Just as this miracle happens she disappears.
16.
17. Shows that time has passed on and that his days are now numbered.
Yeats is mortal or immortal?
18. Shows that Yeats has travelled.
“Though” – shows that is was through persistence that he has
travelled.
19. “I will find out” – Once again shows persistence.
20. Shows a romantic gesture.
21. Dappled – the sunlight has hit it.
Shows the contrast between darkness and light.
20- Anaphora of everything he wants to do to her.
22.
22. Aengus and Caesar lived where there was an abundance of food.
He wants to live with her forever.
23- Moon – feminine.
Perfect Harmony
24. Sun – masculine.
Tree of life in the garden of Eden. I was an apple tree with the sun and
the moon as its fruit.
Main message: persistence, the power of love, quest for the impossible
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