TIME ONCE LOST CAN NEVER BE RECALLED:YEATS

when you are old "is a poem addressed to the poet's beloved Maud gonne. the poet pictures his beloved in old age she will become old and grey she will keep sitting most of the time but the fireside and will have a book of the poet's poems on her lap. she will realise that it was only the poet who love the beauty of her soul he didn't love me I leave the beauty of her body the poet's love for her would remain as intense as ever. "but one man loved the pilgrim soul in you and loved The Sorrows of your changing face". the poet says that in old age she will realise there could be many who loved her beauty truely or falsely but there was one who continued loving her even in her old age he loved not only the movements of glad Grace but also The Sorrows of a changing face. He loved not only her body but also the pilgrim soul in her. the poet does underline the significance and the role of time in one's life. time once lost can never be recalled therefore one must take one's decisions very thoughtfully so that one has not to repent later. youth is the time of beauty joy and strength. old age is a time of pain and sorrow. the poet presents old age a period of desolation only a true lover stands by a person even in his old age.