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When You are Old by W.B Yeats
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When You Are Old
B.Yeats
B.Yeats
In the poem, 'When You Are Old' by W.B.Yeats,
expresses his unrequited love for Maud Gone, a woman who had rejected his love.
The poem brings out many contrasts between physical and inner beauty,
true love and attraction, happiness and sadness. These contrasts suggest that
physical beauty is not permanent but only true love is constant.
The poem is a love lyric of 12 lines. The poet uses
the time frame where he takes his love to the future and asks her to recall her
past memories. He does so in order to warn her not to ignore him. He blends the
past, present and future. He foresees his future and imagines his beloved had
become old with full of grey hair and sleepy eyes , sitting in front of the
fire place . Then her asks her to read the book of poems, which he was written
by him and imagines her graceful youth and the people who loved her physical
beauty and only he had loved her soul, a pilgrim soul questing for a true
love. His love was unconditional and would remain constant like a pole
star. He holes that she regrets ,'little sadly', as she didn't understand how
steadfast his love was and how foolish he was for taking no notice of it. By
the time of realization, she would lose charm and he would become a star
.
Yeats uses personification,'love fled' like a
person would and love hiding between the stars in heavens; love had disappeared
from her life.Thus depicts her as a old woman and wishes that she might change
her mind and decide to return the love for the man, who loves her soul and
doesn't fade away as she loses her charm with age.
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