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Who was the one man the poet talking about this is from when you are old lesson
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William Butler Yeats' poem 'When You Are Old' is directly addressed to his lover, most probably Maud Gonne who was an Irish revolutionary. While W.B. Yeats did write political poems, this poem, 'When You Are Old' is not one of them.

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