please his soul, he can still find happiness in life in its entirety. The creator and the creation are in indissoluble unity. In essence, the poem is composed of eight extensive sentences. That Yeats writes the poem in a consistent abababcc (Ottava Rima) rhyme scheme shows how mundane and dreary life has become for the speaker. Through the contrast of the speaker’s life with that of youthful children, Yeats shows the different stages of life. By reflecting life and obsessing over the individual stages
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