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Comment 3 of 3, added on March 21st, 2006 at 6:41 PM.
He isnt speaking about her being ugly with age but rather how he is saving her beauty by writting about it. even long after her hair is gray people will speak of her because of how he wrote her.
Annmarie
Comment 2 of 3, added on September 26th, 2005 at 8:58 AM.
The woman in this poem is Maud Goone, the love of his life. She never fell in love with him, but they remained freind for the extent of their lives. This poem is just addressing the fact he still sees the beauty in her, the young beauty and the the old beauty, while others just see and old lady.
Meagan from Zambia
Comment 1 of 3, added on April 28th, 2005 at 6:52 PM.
It took me a while to soak up what William's poem was trying to say. He talks of a woman who used to be beautiful and make all the men gasp when she walked by. But now she is old and her hair "grey" and nobody looks at her twice. All that remains of her days of glory and attention is the old memories of the old men who remember her. Perhaps Yeats is suggesting that beauty dies eventually, and is passed on from one youthful generation to the next.
Stacey from Australia
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He isnt speaking about her being ugly with age but rather how he is saving her beauty by writting about it. even long after her hair is gray people will speak of her because of how he wrote her.
Annmarie