NCERT Solutions for Class 12 English Kaleidoscope Poetry Chapter 6 The Wild Swan of Coole

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NCERT Solutions for Class 12 Kaleidoscope Poetry Chapter 6 The Wild Swan of Coole are provided in this article with the download link. This poem is written by the Nobel laureate poet W.B.Yeats. In this poem he describes the swans he had seen while visiting Coole Park in Ireland with an undertone of melancholy and regret. W.B. Yeats is considered as the greatest playwright and poet of the early 20th century.

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The Wild Swan of Coole Summary

This poem includes five stanzas with thirty lines in total. In this poem W.B. Yeats used imagery in a unique way. 

  • The poet begins with the description of an October evening when he visited Coole Lake in Ireland. 
  • In the next segment, Yeats remembers how he had seen swans nineteen years ago and how he was young and fit in those days.
  • In the next stanza the poet goes on discussing how he envies the young hearts of those swans.
  • The poem ends with a note of melancholy as the poet wonders about where the swans will build their nest in the future when one day he wakes up to discover the swans have flown away.

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CBSE CLASS XII Related Questions

  • 1.
    Why did Margayya refuse to part with his purse?


      • 2.
        Read the following poem ‘The Rain’ by Kamala Das :
        We left that old ungainly house
        When my dog died there, after
        The burial, after the rose
        Flowered twice, pulling it by its
        Roots and carting it with our books,
        Clothes and chairs in a hurry.
        We live in a new house now,
        And, the roofs do not leak, but, when
        It rains here, I see the rain drench
        That empty house, I hear it fall
        Where my puppy now lies.
        Alone..
        Based on your understanding of the poem, answer the questions given below:


          • 3.
            Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
            ‘I only came to tell you that I dreamed about you last night,’ she said. ‘You must leave right away and not come back to Vienna for five years.’
            Her conviction was so real that I boarded the last train to Rome that same night. As for me, I was so influenced by what she said that from then on I considered myself a survivor of some catastrophe I never experienced. I still have not returned to Vienna.
            (I Sell My Dreams)


              • 4.
                Why was Margayya's house known as 'Tooth Powder House'?


                  • 5.
                    What is the contrast between the vitality of the swans and the decline of human life?


                      • 6.
                        In the poem 'A Lecture Upon the Shadow', what does the metaphor 'shadow' represent?

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