Hudgens

In a comparison to both Yeats and Brookes, Hudgins in many ways mocks both of the poems in “The Wild Swans Skip to School.” He uses Brooks’ style of writing of short and very revealing sentences that end with the demise of whoever is being discussed. The poem also incorporates the element of swans that are so important in Yeats’ “The Wild Swans at the Coole.” Hudgins even goes so far as to mention Yeats in the third line of his poem as an apparent show of disrespect. Although the poem Is a parody of both Yeats and Brooks’ poems, the poem does not by itself. In order to truly understand the text, the reader has to be familiar with both “We Real Cool” and “The Wild Swans at the Coole.”