"When You Are Old" is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1893. It is Yeats's passionate and sincere love poem dedicated to his girlfriend Maut Gonne. The language of the poem is concise, but the emotions are rich and real. The poet used a variety of artistic expression techniques. The article reproduces the poet's undying love for his girlfriend through an in-depth analysis of the artistic expression techniques used by the poet in the poem, such as hypothesis and imagination, contrast and contrast, image emphasis, and symbolic sublimation. It reveals the unbridgeable distance between real love and ideal love.
When you are old by Yeats
When you are old, gray-headed and sleepy,
taking a nap by the fire, please take down this poem < /p>
Admiring your beauty, false or true,
Only one person loves your pilgrim soul,
Loves the painful wrinkles on your aging face ;
Hang your head, beside the glowing red stove,
Sadly and softly tell the passing of love,
On the mountain above your head it slowly Walking slowly,
hiding his face among a group of stars.