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    Yeats was preoccupied with themes of old age throughout his poetic career. In his early work, he regarded old age as a time of nostalgia and calmness. Later poems assert that old age brings wisdom and frees the soul from sensual pleasures as the body withers. Yeats found an "antidote to old age" in spiritual regeneration, which provides a tranquil state beyond time.

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    Yeats was preoccupied with themes of old age throughout his poetic career. In his early work, he regarded old age as a time of nostalgia and calmness. Later poems assert that old age brings wisdom and frees the soul from sensual pleasures as the body withers. Yeats found an "antidote to old age" in spiritual regeneration, which provides a tranquil state beyond time.

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    Yeats was preoccupied with themes of old age throughout his poetic career. In his early work, he regarded old age as a time of nostalgia and calmness. Later poems assert that old age brings wisdom and frees the soul from sensual pleasures as the body withers. Yeats found an "antidote to old age" in spiritual regeneration, which provides a tranquil state beyond time.

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    Yeats was preoccupied with themes of old age throughout his poetic career. In his early work, he regarded old age as a time of nostalgia and calmness. Later poems assert that old age brings wisdom and frees the soul from sensual pleasures as the body withers. Yeats found an "antidote to old age" in spiritual regeneration, which provides a tranquil state beyond time.

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    AN ACRE OF GRASS

    The theme of old age is a recurring preoccupation in Yeat’s work, particularly


    towards the last age of his poetry. However it is also present in his youthful writings.
    His poetry constantly charts the tensions between the youth and old age. In his Celtic
    Twilight days, he regarded old age as: “When you are old and full of sleep...”, here
    old age is regarded as a thing full of nostalgia and a sense of calmness. This attitude
    or stance towards old age is reiterated in a poem ‘The Coming of Wisdom with Time’
    where he makes the bold assertion that “Now I may wither into truth’, the idea that
    old age brings wisdom is asserted in another poem as ‘bodily decrepitude is wisdom’.
    The same idea also lies between in Byzantium and other poems of the second period
    where he stresses the belief that old age frees a man from his sensual pleasures and
    liberates his soul. Yeats as it is were discovers an antidote to old age-spiritual
    regeneration a condition of tranquil poise, a world which exists as it were beyond
    time.

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