A good work can be attractive only if it is well broken. I will simply mark it with punctuation marks below:
When you are old, your head is gray, and you are sleepy,
While taking a nap by the stove, take down this book,
read it slowly, and dream about the past, your eyes,
your expression is soft, and the reflection in your eyes is deep;
How many people love you, your charm, your charming time,
Love your beauty, out of falsehood or true love,
But only one person loves your soul I love you sincerely,
I love you, and the sorrowful wind and frost on my fading face;
Bent down, beside the blazing red fireplace,
lowered sadly Tell how Love fled,
Wandering on the hills above,
hiding his face among the stars.
The writing background of the poem "When You Are Old" was on January 30, 1889, when the twenty-three-year-old Yeats met the beautiful actress Maud Gonne for the first time. She was twenty-two years old and was the daughter of a colonel in the British Army stationed in Ireland. She had recently inherited a large inheritance after her father's death. Maud Gonne was not only extraordinarily beautiful and slender, but also, after feeling the tragic situation of the Irish people being oppressed by the British, she began to sympathize with the Irish people and resolutely gave up the social life of Dublin's upper class and devoted herself to the struggle for Irish national independence. Come to the movement and become one of the leaders. This added a special halo to Maud Gonne in Yeats's mind.
"When You Are Old" is a poem written by William Butler Yeats in 1893. It is a passionate and sincere love poem Yeats 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.