Question

how does the speaker contrast his love with that of many others in when you are old?
(need a long answer for 4 marks question)​

Answer 1

*The narrator/speaker asks his lady love to presume that she has grown old and grey and is sitting by the fire nodding.

*Then he asks her to read from her book of memories and reminisce her past when she was in her prime youth.

*The “one man” here refers to the poet as he is different from the others who loved the woman only for her external beauty but he loved her for her inner beauty and for her soul not for physical beauty.

*He proved that his love is true by waiting for her for a long time.

Answer 2

The narrator/speaker asks his lady love to presume that she has grown old and grey and is sitting by the fire nodding. Then he asks her to read from her book of memories and reminisce her past when she was in her prime youth.