“The Wild Swans at Coole” summary

The poem depicts a guy who goes and looks at swans over the course of nineteen years. The first stanza talks of his walk over to the pond or lake noticing the trees are “in their autumn beauty”(1) and the woodland paths are dry”(2) and finally seeing the “nine-and-fifty swans”(6). He tells us it is his “nineteenth autumn”(7) here and before he could finish counting the swans they “scatter wheeling”(11). After all the years he has noticed “all’s changed”(15) in his life. He then explains how although much has changed in his life the swans “hearts have not grown old”(22) unlike him. The final stanza expresses that one day the swans will leave and it leaves him thinking “among what rushes will they build”(27)  and where will they fly.