When You Are Old
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Analysis of “” by W. B. Yeats
This poem 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 al ....
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.... of sleep.” “Grey” describes her hair color, and her eyes look “full of sleep” since she is old and has wrinkles around her eyes. She is “nodding by the fire”, taking “down this book” that she reads slowly. She is reading a book near the fireplace. She is also dreaming “of the soft look” her “eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.” Therefore, she is thinking about the times when she was young and had soft loo ....
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