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Yeats when you are old comment

By 杨艺冉 2019-11-25 152次浏览

11.26 Yeats when you are old comment

When You Are Old

In When You Are Old he invites her to cast her mind forward to a time when she is old and grey; to a time when she is no longer the glamorous actress but a frail old woman nodding by the fire.

He asks her to take down a book – perhaps a book recounting her life, or perhaps a book containing poems Yeats had written for her. In any case, it is a book designed to help her recall her former glories.

 

This would be a bitter sweet moment for her. On the one hand she can remember when she was beautiful; on the other, she knows her looks have faded. When she is old she will only be able to dream “of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep”.

 

But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you

When You Are Old was published in The Rose collection in 1893. Yeats was 28 at the time and Gonne was 27.

In the second stanza, Yeats points out that so many men loved her beauty and moments of triumph, but then he gets to his main point:

But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,

And loved the sorrows of your changing face

 

 

He says that unlike other men, he loved her for who she is deep inside; he even loved her as her looks began to fade – “the sorrows of your changing face”. The phrase “pilgrim soul” may refer to Gonne’s independent frame of mind, or perhaps her support for freedom and Irish nationalism.

 

In any case, it is something unique to her in Yeats’ mind and separate from the more transient qualities of her beauty.

 

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