Sunday, February 3, 2019

Constant, Changeless Change (An Argumentative Text About Yeats’s Repres

William Butler Yeats was a poet during the transition from the nineteenth to the ordinal century. He was a brilliant poet. He had a way of make complex images, representing his philosophies regarding change and changeless, with words. He had a lot of unique ideas on philosophical topics such as these. Yeats developed a philosophy that unite his interest in history, art, personality, and society. (1144). In the five poems written by Yeats, and compiled in our textbook, the opposition between radical change and changeless is illustrated very clearly.In the poem, When You are Old, Yeats tells the intended reader, a woman, that his love for her wont change, precisely hopefully, her feelings for him will change when she reads the poem. This poem is a love poem. It is slightly bitter, precisely a love poem, nonetheless. Yeats says that he loves the ambition and the thirst for adventure in her. But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you. (7). On this, I couldnt agree more with Yeats. Yeats says that he loves her, but she doesnt love him yet. He hopes that when something chang...

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