When You Are Old is a poem written by William Butler Yeats in 1893. This is a passionate and sincere love poem, which was dedicated by Ye Zhi to his friend Maud Gunny. The language of poetry is concise, but the emotion is rich and true. The poet used a variety of artistic expressions. Through in-depth analysis of the artistic expression techniques used by the poet in his poems, such as imaginary imagination, comparison and contrast, image emphasis and symbolic sublimation, the poet's loyal love for Maud Gunny is reproduced. It reveals the insurmountable distance between real love and ideal love.
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1October 30th, 23-year-old Ye Zhi met the beautiful actress Maud Gunny for the first time. She is 22 years old and the daughter of a British colonel in Ireland. Recently, she inherited a large fortune after her father died. Maud Gunny is not only beautiful, slim and moving, but also after feeling the miserable situation of the Irish people being oppressed by the British, she began to sympathize with the Irish people, resolutely gave up the social life of Dublin's upper class, devoted herself to the movement for Irish national independence and became one of the leaders. This adds a special aura to Maud Gunny in Ye Zhi's mind.