Poem By W.B. Yeats
The tittle of the poem is suitable the whole poem present the agonies and lamentation of an old pensioner. He laments for the loss of his youth. He remembers his youth and expresses his grief in the old age. He has lost much of youthful vigor, beauty and sass. The poet has compared himself with an old man. We find the personal expression of the life of the poet. He laments for the loss of his youths and unable to get love his beloved, Maud Gonne.
The man spits into the face of time because he is angry with it. Times have changed him into an old, weak and unattractive man. No woman and friend come to him to talk love because of his old age, so he shows his anger towards them. The speaker laments the loss of his vigorous youth, his friends and lovers. When he was young, he use to sit by the fire with his friends and talk about love and politics. Now, he has become like a broken tree. No woman gets attracted to him. Therefore, he expresses his sadness at what he has lost.
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