A Memory of Youth
A Memory of Youth - meaning Summary
Transient Love and Youth
Yeats recalls a brief, intense romance whose pleasures and mutual praise cannot prevent an inevitable dimming. The poem treats love and youth as theatrical, passing moments: confidence and flattery awaken delight yet leave an underlying sense that love may fail. A sudden cloud of doubt or external blow obscures the lovers, but a small, almost absurd interruption restores love's light, suggesting fragility and the unpredictable returns of feeling.
Read Complete AnalysesThe moments passed as at a play; I had the wisdom love brings forth; I had my share of mother-wit, And yet for all that I could say, And though I had her praise for it, A cloud blown from the cut-throat North Suddenly hid Love's moon away. Believing every word I said, I praised her body and her mind Till pride had made her eyes grow bright, And pleasure made her cheeks grow red, And vanity her footfall light, Yet we, for all that praise, could find Nothing but darkness overhead. We sat as silent as a stone, We knew, though she'd not said a word, That even the best of love must die, And had been savagely undone Were it not that Love upon the cry Of a most ridiculous little bird Tore from the clouds his marvellous moon.
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