Poems of W.B. Yeats: The Rose

What does Yeats want to warn Maud Gonne about?

When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats

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Yeats is warning Maud not to give herself up age.... he wants her to live, and to remember the way she used to be, as well as the people who loved and still love her.

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