"When You Are Old" by W.B. Yeats is a poem that reflects on lost love and the passage of time. It is a meditation on the inevitability of aging and the transience of human love and beauty, suggesting that true love endures despite these changes and remains a source of comfort and solace in old age.
Lovely to read this again. Always reminds me too of Eliot and J. Alfred Prufrock. I grow old ... I grow old ... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
"When You Are Old" by W.B. Yeats is a poem that reflects on lost love and the passage of time. It is a meditation on the inevitability of aging and the transience of human love and beauty, suggesting that true love endures despite these changes and remains a source of comfort and solace in old age.
Excellent choice. Thanks for sharing
Ah, the pilgrim soul in you.
Yeats could write some verse
Many of whatever age will relate to the ‘dimming of the light’. It’s called mortality. Nobody escapes it. The poem is epic in its simplicity.
I love this poem. In a certain sense, it reminds me of Giacomo Leopardi, a famous Italian poet of the XIX Century
I love this. And I remember Cillian Murphy's reading of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRBgbUhc9TE
I love this poem. Thank you kindly for sharing. Happy Easter to you and all of yours!
I'm new to poetry. Just began to read it this week!! I'm weeks away from turning 67!! A late bloomer.
I enjoyed this poem because I can relate. For me, it simplified the whole journey from life to grave.
Welcome to poetry!
Lovely to read this again. Always reminds me too of Eliot and J. Alfred Prufrock. I grow old ... I grow old ... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Very simple, really good