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    English 1118-54 Online 19 October 2014 Explication of “When You Are Old” by William Butler Yeats When you are old and grey and full of sleep‚ And nodding by the fire‚ take down this book‚ And slowly read‚ and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once‚ and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace‚ 5 And loved your beauty with love false or true‚ But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you‚ And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And

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    William Butler YeatsWhen You Are Old” is a tribute to deeper love‚ an obvious interpretation of a poem that contains the word “love” five times in twelve lines. However‚ it is specifically the speaker’s personal analysis of what he imagines “love” to entail. It represents an elderly woman reminiscing of her younger days. A past lover whispers to her as she looks through a photo album. This is a very somber‚ regretful and resigned poem. It has a quiet‚ dreamlike feeling to it. And uses uncomplicated

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    When You Are Old” The poem “When You Are Old” written by William Butler Yeats is a poem spoken by an anonymous narrator. The narrator seems to be talking to a woman and refers to her youth and his love for her throughout the poem. In the first stanza‚ the narrator speaks about the woman being “old and gray and full of sleep”‚ this line is telling the reader that the woman is of older age. When the narrator says “take down this book‚ and slowly read‚ and dream of the soft look your eyes had once

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    or just a paragraph is (part of) a literary work or not. That’s because most of the literary works have some certain kind of features that make them distinguishable‚ especially from daily communication. In the following paragraphs‚ some of these features will be discussed. The following is a famous piece of work written by W.B.Yeats‚ an Irish poet and dramatist‚ praised as “one of the foremost figures in the 20th century”. When You Are Old When you are old and gray and full of sleep And nodding

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    Genevieve Soden 1.20.13 Essay Rewrite ! In the poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud” by William Wordsworth nature is the main subject throughout the entire poem. Wordsworth expresses a positive attitude towards nature by using imagery and rhyme. Furthermore‚ he uses imagery by painting an excellent happy picture of the scene. He uses rhyme to convey his feelings in the poem. ! Wordsworth’s positive attitude in this poem is shown by the lighthearted‚ happy feeling that the readers get after

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    of the past‚ conveying the message that the rushed leisure of her time is hardly leisure at all. She accomplishes this by using several stylistic devices‚ including personification‚ imagery‚ and diction. <br> <br>The most obvious stylistic device used by Eliot is that of personification. She uses this device to create two people from her thoughts on old and new leisure. The fist person is New Leisure‚ who we can infer to be part of the growth of industry in the 19th century. He is eager and interested

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    W.B. Yeats has created rhythm in his poem "When You Are Old" by using a familiar meter‚ simple rhyme scheme and by enhancing these forms with effective poetic devices and substitutions. Almost everyone who has studied English has read a play written by William Shakespeare. Yeats uses the same form‚ iambic pentameter‚ to create a steady rhythm that is familiar to many readers. He uses substitution feet to deviate from the regular meter and emphasize the parts of the poem he feels are important. For

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    When You Are Old and Gray

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    When you are old and gray and full of sleep And nodding by the fire‚ take down this book‚ And slowly read‚ and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once‚ and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace‚ And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you‚ And loved the sorrows of your changing face. And bending down beside the glowing bars‚ Murmur‚ a little sadly‚ how love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead‚ And hid

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    William Butler Yeats is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. He belonged to the Protestant‚ Anglo-Irish minority that had controlled the economic‚ political‚ social‚ and cultural life of Ireland since at least the end of the seventeenth century. Most members of this minority considered themselves English people who merely happened to have been born in Ireland‚ but Yeats was staunch in affirming his Irish nationality. Although he lived in London for fourteen

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    20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. Yeats’s father‚ John Butler Yeats‚ was a barrister who eventually became a portrait painter. His mother‚ formerly Susan Pollexfen‚ was the daughter of a prosperous merchant in Sligo‚ in western Ireland. Through both parents Yeats claimed kinship with various Anglo-Irish Protestant families who are mentioned in his work. Normally‚ Yeats would have been expected to identify with his Protestant tradition—which represented a powerful

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