when-you-are-old(英美文学阅读与欣赏).ppt

When you are old By William Butler Yeats 01 Poetry 02 Poet 03 Hero 04 Background 01 Poetry When you are old When you are old and grey and full of sleep. And nodding by the fire, take down this book. And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. How many loved your moments of glad grace. And loved your beauty with love false or true. But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you. And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled. And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars. 02 Poet William Butler Yeats is an Irish poet, playwright, famous mystic.Yeats is the Irish Celtic revival movement leader, is also the Abbey Theatre (Abbey Theatre) one of the founders of.The art is regarded as the epitome of modern English poetry from the traditional to the transition. Eliot called the greatest English poet of the twentieth Century. 03 Hero ? Maud Gonne Anglo Irish actor, the feminist movement the Irish independent molecules, she refused to Yeats pursuit of fame, she recalls him as a man like a woman, and I refused him, he gave the world. In January 30, 1889, twenty-three year old Yeats first met the beautiful actress Maud. Because, she was twenty-two years old, Yeats gang for Mao and Mao be passionately devoted, fall in love at first sight. Maud Gonne has been on Yeats. Nevertheless, Yeats to be neither friendly nor aloof, her love life for all, therefore, it is difficult to resolve the pain of life is full of Yeats for a long time. 04 Background When you are old When you are old this four word gently thought,