I walked among the seven woods of Coole:
Shan-walla, where a willow-hordered pond
Gathers the wild duck from the winter dawn;
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ONE: This psycho-spiritual conception of the relations between the individual, the other, and reality itself have a profound effect on all of Yeat's aesthetic works, but can be particularly felt in his verse drama 'The Shadowy Waters'. Typical for the works of William Butler Yeats
This is one of those poems which, if you love him, you love his music and his love of wandering over the hills, saying the poem to himself. It is a wonderful picture in the midst of the darkness of Ireland that this man could find such beauty, such peace in the silence of the glens.
on reading this poem the second time, I admired the beautiful scenery of this shadowy waters
For me is this poem 5 Stars full and To My Favourites.