Can love be eternal? Does love still stay around in some form after one’s lover deceased or does it wither away like one’s lover does when he died? To the author, love is eternal and that love stays with people forever in a form of memory. Memory doesn’t fade away since it is intangible even when one’s partner dies. Through the old woman in the poem, “When You Are Old,” Yeats conveys his belief of love when one’s partner became old.
This opening line, “When you are old and grey and full of sleep,” (864) strongly connected with the title, “When You Are Old,” since the exact words of the title is in the first line. The line states that the woman is old and has grey hair and is easily tired; thus, she needs to sleep more. In the s
According to the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, memory means “an image or impression of one that is remembered.” It also stays in the mind-- untouchable and will not change like beauty since memory is from the past experiences and one’s pass can’t be changed. In the final stanza, Yeats wrote, “Love fled” (864). The word “love” is capitalized to stress that love is not just affection but some soul of itself and it can represent the lover. The word “fled” conveys that the lover might have died. The “crowd of stars” is the memories of the woman, which shows that she has so many memories, and the Love “hiding his face amid a crowd of stars” (864) illustrates that her lover is part of her memories.
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