William Butler Yeats Never Give All The Heart

In his heartbreaking sonnet “Never give all the Heart,” William Butler Yeats forewarns men to be attentive when it comes to woman and expressing their interest. Yeats introduces his idea in line one with his point of view, “Never give all the heart” – expressing that men shouldn’t input all of their feelings into one woman; then, in lines six to seven with a metaphor, “For everything that’s lovely is/ But a brief, dreamy, kind delight” – communicating to readers that although everything seemed magical, it only lasted for a short bliss; furthermore, in lines nine and ten, he explains that his love was taken for granted “For they, for all smooth lips can say, / Have given their hearts up to the play; finally, in lines eleven and twelve with