Poems of W.B. Yeats: The Tower

A Prayer for Old Age by WB Yeats

1. What is his prayer?

2. How does he want to grow old?

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The speaker prays to be passionate about life in his old age rather than reasonable and predictable. He wants to feel young inside rather that than old.

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