https://www.poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/76364/the-wild-swans-at-coole The setting of William Butler Yeats’ poem The Wild Swans at Coole (composed in 1916) is Coole Park, Lady Gregory’s estate in Galway, a county in thel West of the Republic of Ireland. The poem deals with the problem of ageing,... Sign in to see full entry.