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When You Are Old II PU English Summary | When You Are Old II PU English Notes

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William Butler Yeats is an Irish poet and one of the greatest poets in the English Language in the 20th century. He was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in 1923. He is one among the great love poets of the world.

''When You Are Old'' is a love poem addressed to the poet’s beloved Maud Gonne who was the most beautiful young lady of his time. She is believed to be the inspiration behind this poem.   The tone of the poem is one of melancholy. W.B. Yeats imagines her future years and his true love in future. He repents over her divergent attitude who fails to understand his spiritual love.  The poet begins the first stanza addressing her imagining her to be in her old age. The lady will be very old approaching her peaceful years. She then opens the book of poems penned by the poet. As she starts to read slowly, she is taken back in time to recollect her past when she had innocent looks in her eyes and sadness hidden in the looks of her eyes.  The poet  also says that his beloved would also regret how many  loved her physical grace but only the poet worshipped her Pilgrim soul even as her face changed. At last, the lady will grieve over the loss of her True Love fleeing from her and joining a crowd of stars very distant from her. Thus the poet expresses his true intentions while his beloved fails to understand.







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  6. 5th answer of 1 mark the answer should be "old age" right if I am wrong please reply

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