Episode 172 - Poetry Explication #12: When You are Old by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats was a famous Irish poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  He wrote a lot about loss and death in war, but today's poem is a bit different.  It's about loss in a different form, a loss of love.  Sad, but accepting.  Sorrowful, but kind.  It is the type of poem with which we can all relate.  Join me as we explore When You are Old.