Yeats’s Poetry and His Ambivalence about Old Age
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This paper discusses some of Yeats’s works that deal with old age. What’s unique in his poetry is that the problem of age and aging appears in the earliest to the last poetry. That is, Yeats may have thought that aging is part of human life, and that is an amazing discovery for the poet. For instance, he wrote “The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner” in his twenties, which recognizes that man cannot shed his decrepit body and should submit to the lapse of time. This paper discusses the problem of age and aging, and attempts to make fine differences in each poem, such as “When You Are Old,” “Among School Children,” “The Tower,” “All Souls’ Night,” “Sailing to Byzantium.” There is some ambivalence about old age in each of the poems, and we should note the fine differences in them, instead of calling them simply age poems.
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This paper discusses some of Yeats’s works that deal with old age. What’s unique in his poetry is that the problem of age and aging appears in the earliest to the last poetry. That is, Yeats may have thought that aging is part of human life, and that is an amazing discovery for the poet. For instance, he wrote “The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner” in his twenties, which recognizes that man cannot shed his decrepit body and should submit to the lapse of time. This paper discusses the problem of age and aging, and attempts to make fine differences in each poem, such as “When You Are Old,” “Among School Children,” “The Tower,” “All Souls’ Night,” “Sailing to Byzantium.” There is some ambivalence about old age in each of the poems, and we should note the fine differences in them, instead of calling them simply age poems.
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