When You Are Old

Episode 1 of the Yellow Sheaves Poetry podcast, hosted by Aditi Bist, titled "When You Are Old" was published on July 15, 2020 and runs 1 minutes.

July 15, 2020 ·1m · Yellow Sheaves Poetry

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Summary

This is a poem by the 19th century Irish poet William Butler Yeats. The speaker is asking his lover to think ahead to the future and the time when they will be old and suggests that the lover will regret not being with him once she realises the true face of all those false lovers around her.. but at that moment she will not be able to do anything about it.

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This is a poem by the 19th century Irish poet William Butler Yeats. The speaker is asking his lover to think ahead to the future and the time when they will be old and suggests that the lover will regret not being with him once she realises the true face of all those false lovers around her.. but at that moment she will not be able to do anything about it.

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