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When You are Old, by William Butler Yeats, represents and elderly woman reminiscing of her younger days. A past lover whispers to her as she looks through a photo album. Basically, Yeats is showing that as the woman gets older, she is alone, but she does not hav ....

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.... bars,” (l.9) could be translated to ‘as you’re bending down to stoke the fire,’ she’ll mumble to herself about his death, “how Love fled” (l.10) and his soul climbing to heaven to live “amid a crowd of stars” (l.12). In the last verse of When you are Old, William Butler Yeats uses personification of love to enhance the image of the late lover waiting for the elderly woman. Lines 10-12 “Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled, and paced upon the mountains overhead and hid his face amid a crowd of stars” give personal qualities to love. By capitalizing love, it becomes its own being, which waits impatiently, hence pacing the ....