The diction William Yeats uses in The Song of Wandering Aengus helps communicate the melancholic lust of an unrequited love. The first stanza Yeats begins with a fast paced, positive. In his he depicts the flying of moths, but then next he goes on to compare moths to stars "moth-like stars were flickering", he states. Stars are considered to light the dark sky, and to be beautiful or create beautiful shapes. Moths are bugs however, bugs which come and swarm sources of light and can usually be considered pests. Yeats purposefully depicts a beautiful sight alongside pests. Later, Yeats introduces a "glimmering girl", to his poem. "glimmering" evokes vivid images of bright colors and shine. A "glimmering girl" must be a shining, beautiful, happy
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Before the characters encounter with the girl, words like "fire", and "dropped", populate the stanza. Both words have a destructive connotation. The words make the reader feel curious and worrisome of why the main character is to be depicted with such words. A "silver trout" is later caught. Silver, although used to describe a fish, is quite beautiful and calming to hear next to "fire and "dropped". Silver is a luxury, and smooth and cooling. The main character continues through the poem, the words "hollow" and "pluck" are used in the third stanza. This again unnerves the reader, pluck and hollow are of a different sad undertone than "dropped" or "fire". "Hollow" connotates to something which once was, "pluck" as to something lost. As the mood of the stanza so far is forlorn, Yeats uses "golden" to describe the glowing of the sun in the very last sentence. Golden alone is used to describe happiness, holy and regal figures, and success, however its connection to his previous use of silver trout is underlined as a means of seeing happiness within his misfortune. The sun is a mass which will always be in our lives, something golden to always see. His tone is patiently appreciate, although desparity may have come his
Before the characters encounter with the girl, words like "fire", and "dropped", populate the stanza. Both words have a destructive connotation. The words make the reader feel curious and worrisome of why the main character is to be depicted with such words. A "silver trout" is later caught. Silver, although used to describe a fish, is quite beautiful and calming to hear next to "fire and "dropped". Silver is a luxury, and smooth and cooling. The main character continues through the poem, the words "hollow" and "pluck" are used in the third stanza. This again unnerves the reader, pluck and hollow are of a different sad undertone than "dropped" or "fire". "Hollow" connotates to something which once was, "pluck" as to something lost. As the mood of the stanza so far is forlorn, Yeats uses "golden" to describe the glowing of the sun in the very last sentence. Golden alone is used to describe happiness, holy and regal figures, and success, however its connection to his previous use of silver trout is underlined as a means of seeing happiness within his misfortune. The sun is a mass which will always be in our lives, something golden to always see. His tone is patiently appreciate, although desparity may have come his