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When You Are Old Questions and Answers, Notes, Summary
When You Are Old Comprehension I.
Question 1.
The poet is addressing
(a) a young woman the poet has loved
(b) an old woman that he has met now
(c) the woman that he has admired in his life
Ans.
(a) a young woman the poet has loved
Question 2.
In line two, the word ‘book’ refers to
(a) memories
(b) book of poems
(c) an album
(d) diary
Ans.
(b) book of poems
Question 3.
The words ‘glad grace’ suggests
(a) her physical beauty
(b) her inner beauty
(c) her goodness
Ans.
(c) her goodness
Question 4.
‘Pilgrim soul’ means the soul
(a) which is immortal
(b) that has gone on a pilgrimage
(c) which is in quest of true love
Ans.
(c) which is in quest of true love
Question 5.
What does the phrase ‘your changing face’ suggest?
Ans.
“Changing face” suggests the poet’s true love towards his lover. As all others admire only her beauty but the poet loved her deeply.
Question 6.
‘Love fled’ connotes
(a) the death of the man who loved her
(b) the fleeing of her lover to the mountains
(c) the loss endured by her
Ans.
(a) the death of the man who loved her
When You Are Old Comprehension II.
Question 1.
How is the ‘one-man’ different from the many others who loved the lady?
Answer:
The “one-man” here refers to the poet as he is different from the others who loved the woman only for her external beauty but he loved her for her inner beauty and for her soul not for physical beauty. He proved that his love is true by waiting for her for a long time.
Question 2.
Docs the poem bring out the transient nature of beauty as against permanence of love?
Answer:
The poem brings out the transient nature of beauty as against the fact that true love remains permanent. Here the poet describes his lady’s beauty when she was young and he also describes her after becoming old as she had grey hair and sleepy eyes. Despite all these, the poet’s love remains constant, because his love is permanent though her beauty has waned.
When You Are Old Comprehension III.
Question 1.
Comment on the usage of time frame by the poet.
Answer:
The poet wanted to see his beloved’s memories about him after his death. So here the poet blends the trinity of time – past, present and future. He foresees his future death and imagines his beloved had become old with full of gray hairs and sleepy eyes sitting in front of the fireplace. Then he asks his beloved to read the book of poems which was written by him and asks her to imagine slowly her dream of youth and how many members had loved her for her external beauty and only he who had loved for her soul. But now, the lady realized it was all past and her true love has also vanished and her lover also dead and becomes sad and disappointed.
Question 2.
‘When you Are Old is a poem of contrasts. What contrasts do you find in the poem? What purpose do they serve?
Answer:
The poem brings out many contrasts. There is a contrast between physical beauty and inner beauty. The contrast between true love and attraction and the contrast between happiness and sadness. All these contrasts connote that the physical beauty is not permanent but only true love is permanent. The young lady might have been very glad in her youth because of her beauty, but she was very sad in her old age as she did not enjoy the true love of the poet. By the time realization came the poet was dead.
When You Are Old Additional Questions and Answers
Question 1.
What is the figure of speech in the Phrase “Love fled”.
(a) simile
(b) metaphor
(c) personification
Answer:
(c) personification
Question 2.
“But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you”. Whom does the word “one-man” refer to.
(a) poet/speaker
(b) artist
(c) musician
Answer:
poet/speaker
Question 3.
Why does the lady become sad at the end?
Answer:
She did not appreciate and accept true love when it was there and it had vanished by the time realization came later and so, she became sad.
When You Are Old Summary in English
– W.B. Yeats
The poem “When You Are Old” is a love poem by W.B.Yeats. The poem describes the imagination of the poet about his beloved when she will be old. The poet describes her old age and gray hair and her sleepy eyes. And when she sits at the fire, the poet asks her to take his book of poems and read.
As she was reading, she would imagine her young age and how, many young people followed her because of her external beauty. The poet reminds her that he was the only true lover who loved her for the sake’of her internal beauty. The poet loves her even when she was old and even in problems, he would love her as much as he could.
The last Paragraph excellently brings out as love is personified which the below lines justify.
“How love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead”.
At the time she was very sad as she lost the youth, she lost the beauty she lost the true love, so she felt very much disappointed for her foolish decision for not accepting the true love in the youth.
In this way the poet excellently blends the future, past, and the present and gives a message to youth, to judge true love at the right age. Hence, the poem stands as an “icon of love” for true lovers and a pathway for the disappointed ones who are still young.
When You Are Old Summary in Kannada
