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Sunday, February 3, 2008


here is my essay for English what do u think? if u dont want to read it I have a post beneath it^^
When You Are Old
By: William Butler Yeats


In the poem When You Are Old, by William Butler Yeats, the poet asks the intended audience to cogitate upon the joyous and bittersweet moments of the past love. The word choice in When You Are Old, creates a contemplative mood, by asking the audience to “read and dream” about the “fled love.”
The poem conveys how many people can love “your moments of glad grace” but there will only be one person who “loves the pilgrim soul in you.” Meaning that no matter how many people there are in the world, everyone has one soul mate, that one person who will “love the sorrows of your changing face.”
The poet uses the phrase, “But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, and loved the sorrows of your changing face,” to express how he was the only person to love her for who she was and not for what she did, and he continued to love her as they aged. Unfortunately, something happened to make the love they shared “pace upon mountains overhead and hid his face amid a crowd of stars.” Meaning that the integrity of their love changed and now he is just a face in a crowd of people. Now, he wants her to “slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.” Meaning that he wants her to cogitate upon the past and remember him, and the love they shared.
The poem When You Are old, has a contemplative mood, because the poet wants the intended audience to reflect upon a “fled love,” when they “are old and grey and full of sleep.”

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