Beginning With When You Are Old Literary Devices

Beginning with When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats, we as the reader’s first notice the rhyme scheme used. Readers observe that the first and fourth lines of the poem rhyme, as well as the second and third lines. Correspondingly, the poem grasps an iambic pentameter which gives Yeats poem a more musical characteristic. The word “And” appears in this poem more than six times just in the first stanza alone which keeps the rhythm of the meter constant. In my opinion, I believe that the narrator in the poem is the author himself. I consider this poem being read to someone that Yeats loved and maybe that someone could being going through a difficult time seeing the brighter side of things. The narrator focusses on his loved one so that when she aged she should read a certain book that is said to retell of her youth, beauty, and a man who loved her ageing soul unconditionally. Yeats uses a lot of soft words throughout the poem, such as, “soft look,” “full of sleep,” and “dream.” These softer words set the main tone of calmness. Whomever Yeats may be referring to, he uses love as personification and he makes it clear that
These “bodies” may be twin cities or married/united states, but they are still identified as separate and distinct. This diverse poem by Sharon Olds speaks for itself when it comes down to analyzing. The poem itself displays eroticism with friskiness and actual parts of the body, rather than boasting romance and literal love making. Though Sharon Olds refers these body parts as states or cities on a “map,” readers still catch the real hidden meaning fast. “One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all” this is the last line in Old’s poem that catches our eye because of its randomness. This line that Sharon uses is obviously an older version of the Pledge of Allegiance because it doesn’t have the 1954 add-on “Under