![]() from circumstantial to purely lyrical writing." Meaning and inspiration In an 1899 letter to fellow poet Dora Sigerson, Yeats called "The Song of Wandering Aengus" "the kind of poem I like best myself-a ballad that gradually lifts. ![]() The poem is told from the point of view of an old man who, at some point in his past, had a fantastical experience in which a silver trout fish he had caught and laid on the floor turned into a "glimmering girl" who called him by his name, then vanished he became infatuated with her, and remains devoted to finding her again. It is especially remembered for its two final lines: "The silver apples of the moon,/ The golden apples of the sun." It was first printed in 1897 in British magazine The Sketch under the title "A Mad Song." It was then published under its standard name in Yeats' 1899 anthology The Wind Among the Reeds. " The Song of Wandering Aengus" is a poem by Irish poet W. ![]()
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