wild swans
Feral white birds
Wild swans are swans living in their natural state rather than domesticated or kept in parks.
The phrase often carries poetic or mythological weight, evoking untamed beauty and freedom.
Yeats's poem "The Wild Swans at Coole" and Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Wild Swans" have given the phrase literary resonance: She watched the wild swans glide across the lake at dusk.
- migrationMovement to new territory
- fairy taleMagical children's narrative
- feathersBird's lightweight covering
- white feathersEmblems of timidity
- whiteAbsence of pigment
Hans Christian Andersen · graceful · lake · flock · transformation · brothers · enchantment · flight · geese · cygnets · wings · gliding · elegance · Yeats · Celtic · Celtic mythology · myth · nettles
- Nordic talestrolls, selkies, Hans Christian Andersen, Astrid Lindgren, Moomin
- swan poetryYeats
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