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Whenyouareold ------WilliamButlerYeats 丹丹 2021/5/91 William Butler Yeats Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright . He was the greatest lyric poet Ireland has produced and one of the major figures of 20th-century literature, the acknowledged leader of the Irish literary renaissance. Yeats’ early poetry was under the influence of the romantic poets, but his Irish theme and his special use of language soon showed him to be a poet of distinction. 2021/5/92 William Butler Yeats In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Nobel Committee described as inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation. He was the first Irishman so honored. Yeats is also a dramatist , writing verse plays in most of the cases. He wrote about 20 plays altogether from 1892 to 1939. The play was a great inspiration to the Irish nationalists who were fighting against the English government for their own freedom and independence .2021/5/93 Major Works The Countess Cathleen (1892)《凯丝琳女伯爵 》------a play- The Early Romantic Period’s Poems:Crossway (1899) 《十字路口》The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) 《苇间风》The Rose (1893) -The Period of Transition’s Poems:In the Seven Woods (1904) 《七重林中》 The Great Helmet and Other Poems (1910) 《绿盔及其他诗作 》The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)《库利的野天鹅 》Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)《迈可·罗拔兹与舞者 》 -The Great Period’s Poems :The Tower (1928) 《塔楼 》The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) 《回梯与其他诗作》2021/5/94 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