when you are old

Title: when you are old
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 772 | Pages: 3.3 (approximately 235 words/page)

when you are old

Analysis of “When You Are Old” by W. B. Yeats This poem When You Are Old by W. B. Yeats is about Yeats telling his lover how it is going to be when she is old, and he is not around anymore. He is telling her how much he loves her now and how she will think about his love when she is old. She does not say anything although the speaker imagines her saying …showed first 75 words of 772 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 772 total…crowd of stars in the sky. This poem, When You Are Old, assumes that the woman is old even though she is not old at that time. The speaker is imagining the time when she is old and talks about what she would think of her life and love when she is old. He tells her how she would be sad when she is old thinking about her youth and her love that left her.

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