The Old Pensioner

The Old Pensioner

Poems

Them poem”the lamentation of the old pensioner is a revised poem. Poem has been composed by an irish poet W.B. Yeats. In this poem the Clements on his life. He camper present old life with past young life. He remembers his past and present events and exprencise for his life. His youth was very good and pleasant. He was loved by beautiful by wiment friends, boys or everybody. But now a day’s the poet ha lost all people because of the time. The time has changed his young life into old life. He’s old is very sad. He remembers his beautiful days of his post. The poet considers takes the time as his enemiy because the time has change himinto old. The poet has lost his power and physically his very week. So spits into the face of time and laments won has life. 

Physically the old man is very week. He is lean and thin. He has strong soul. He seems too sold. He had white hair eyesight, wrinkle face and show many weak ness.

He sees some mischievous boys making weapons for some conspiracy. These ‘rascals’ are sure to create chaos in the society through some barbarous activities. But the poet is not concerned about the possible anarchy in the society. He is sad as the time has transfigured him. 

The poet laments that the time has made him ugly like a broken tree and therefore, no woman shows interest in him. However, the poet consoles himself that “the beauties that he loved” are still fresh in his memory. He holds the “Time” a culprit, who has taken away his shelter, friends, youth, energy, and charm and wants to spit on its face in disgust for his metamorphosis.

But won the other hand the young man is trong and powerful. He doesn’t thing about time. He weak in soul. He seems to be happy. His thing that he well alyawas be young which also true in the poem the lamentation of the old pensioner.