Explore the ways in which poetry can reflect the mood of the poet and in particular
A poem can reflect the mood of its poet in many ways, in the three poems The Wild Swans at Coole by W. ... The idea of imperfection is a mood that is reflected in the poem “the nineteenth autumn” this is an imperfect number just as the number of swans which he obviously counted “nine and fifty”, 59 seems such an odd, unfinished number again displaying the idea of imperfection. ... In stanza three of this poem he begins to reflect on his own life and how everything has been disturbed, the way the swans disturb the water. ... In this poem he is criticizing human nature for not giving enough time to reflect and enjoy nature.