The Song Of The Wandering Aengus Analysis

title The title ,”The Song of the Wandering Aengus” is relatively large and provides the reader with a lot of information of what can follow in the poem. Beginning with the most noteworthy and unique word, “Aengus”, is not only a popular Irish name, but a god of love and youth. This tells us that the author or setting has to relate to Ireland in some form of fashion. It is so be seen later wether they literally implicate anything that has to do with a physical god to entity. In irish mythology, Angeus is also the god of poetic inspiration. Perhaps the poem was made with the intention to inspire a reader, or perhaps the main character of the poem goes through a dynamic change of thought. This could possibly foreshadow achievements, changes in

This happens within the second and third stanzas. Every stanza has a distinct attitude towards the main characters perspective. This is most clearly highlighted in the diction. As stated before, the mood is explorative and understanding. A coarse word like “fire” is mentioned twice in conjunction with more light hearted words like “wand” or “flickering”. The precise first point of shift in the poem is in line 11, “But something rustled on the floor”, this is the first use of contrast in the poem, which is the word “but”. The tone from this point is clearly more happy, with words like “glimmering” and “brightening”, the lighthearted tone is far more confident than that of the text before the shift. Yet another shift occurs in the third stanza, on line 17 ,“Though I am old with wandering” Yeats says. Similar to the first shift, this is the first use of an indication of time or age. Before this point, although in past tense, no sense of day or flow of time is established. “Old” is associated to be a negative trait, Yeats use of “though” is what gives us insight to his implied tone on the aging. The pacing is much slower and less explorative, and as I said before, Yeats revisits ‘silver’. However in the later stanza, this is applied to “apples of the moon”, which in historical context is a sexual reference of forbidden fruit. The pacing, tone, focus, and overall content has shifted within the stanza, and has taken an even larger shift from the beginning. The poem progresses from an innocent, explorative mood to a matured, fulfilled [although explorative of a different natured