Question

explain the title of the poem when you are old

Answer 1

Answer:

It is addressed to Maud Gonne with whom he was in love. It forms a part of the group of poems published in 1893 with the title The Rose. It expresses the poet's distress at the disastrous onslaught of Time. In this poem the poet narrates how his beloved Maud Gonne would grow old with the passage of time.