In class we discussed whether or not Andrew Hudgins’ poem “The Wild Swans Skip School” is mocking Yeats’ poem “The Wild Swans at Coole” or not. In Hudgins’ poem, he is challenging the common romantic view that people associate with swans. He does this by breaking down all of the “fluff” that Yeats has in his poem to the basic instincts of birds. The mo
st recognizable line in which he does this is when he says “We have mate.” In Yeats’ poem, he says that the swans are “lovers” and each has their pair. By Hudgins calling the swans “mates” instead of “lovers” as Yeats does, he makes them more animal-like and less romanticized. The swans, which are the speakers in Hudgins’ poem, are telling the audience that they are not all that they want them to be. In the end, they are just birds with basic survival instincts to “beat wings” and “have mates” and even to “fly ‘way.”
st recognizable line in which he does this is when he says “We have mate.” In Yeats’ poem, he says that the swans are “lovers” and each has their pair. By Hudgins calling the swans “mates” instead of “lovers” as Yeats does, he makes them more animal-like and less romanticized. The swans, which are the speakers in Hudgins’ poem, are telling the audience that they are not all that they want them to be. In the end, they are just birds with basic survival instincts to “beat wings” and “have mates” and even to “fly ‘way.” 
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