The Lamentation Of The Old Pensioner
The Lamentation Of The Old Pensioner
Poem By W.B. Yeats
This present poem " The Lamentation Of The Old Pensioner" is written by the famous poet. W.B. Yeasts. In this poem, the poet has highligted the importance of 'time.' He has tried to us that time is such a powerful force which offers all the creature of the world. None can be saved from its effects.
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 remember his youth and expresses his grief in the old age. He has lost much of youthful vigure, beauty and zeas. 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 has 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 time. The speaker laments the loss of his vigorus youth, his fiends 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 express his sadness at what he has lost.
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