Part one of term paper
Analysis of “” by W. B. Yeats This poem by W. B. Yeats is about Yeats telling his lover how it is going to be when she is old, and he is not around anymore. He is telling her how much he loves her now and how she will think about his love when she is old. She does not say anything although the speaker imagines her saying someth ...

Part two of term paper
... In the first four lines, he describes the time, the place where the woman will be, and what she will be doing at that time when she is old. Basically he describes her old age and how she will read her book near the fireplace dreaming about how she was when she was young. She is “old and grey and full of sleep.” “Grey” describes her hair color, and her eyes look “full of sleep” since she is old and has wrinkles around her eyes. She is “nodding by the fi ...