Seminar paper from the year 2022 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: A, University of Education (University of Education Winneba), language: English, abstract: The paper has undertaken a literary stylistic analysis of William Butler Yeasts' poem "When You are Old". It was discovered, through this paper, that Yeats employed certain literary devices such as metaphor, personification, anaphora, irony, repetition and host of them to bring his message to live in his poem "When You are Old".