"When You Are Old" -WB Yeats and 10/Rose

[intrikate88]

When You Are Old
By William Butler Yeats

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
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

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Does this not seem like a total 10/Rose poem? I can just see it as a message to Rose, after so many years of separation, that he would say he loved her "pilgrim soul" and tell her to dream (like in "Song for Ten"- "But if you can still dream/close your eyes and you'll see/ that you can see me now and then"). The imagery places the beloved by the fireplace, and she looks down at "the glowing bars"; sounds quite allusive to "Girl in the Fireplace". And what imagery of the Doctor! Pacing upon the mountains overhead, and hiding his face "amid a crowd of stars".

 

*happy sigh* I <3 Yeats. 

Comments

[purplemonster77.livejournal.com]

That's such a beautiful poem, and I agree, it's totally D/R.

[xbriyeon.livejournal.com]

Gah, makes me love Yeats even more.. thanks for pointing this out. *sigh*

[maypanic.livejournal.com]

Yeats is the Eleventh Doctor. This r trufax.
In other news, I have got to take a break from ihasatardis, the macros are eating my brainz. And gravely distorting my communication skills.

Such a beautiful poem. Now it seems amazing that I never before thought of it as being very D/R.

[spooky-xphile.livejournal.com]

Totally 10/Rose. I love this poem now. *goes to write it down*