Cassie Sloan
The Coming Of Wisdom With Time
For this poetry response I was looking through by book and thought why not challenge
myself to a short poem. I knew that it would be hard but actually it was so easy. I read The
Coming Of Wisdom With Time by William Butler Yeats. I loved this poem; even though it
was so short the poem has so much meaning within it. Essentially this poem is talking about
the foolishness of our youth. It is saying that when you are young there are endless
possibilities of things to do, you believe you can do anything because that is what we are
told. Our parents tell us stories of the easter bunny and santa claus painting a mystical
world in our head, with good intentions of course. But it sucks when you grow up and
realize the world isn’t as mystic as they told you. One day you have to go to college, get a job
and become an adult. In the second line it says, “Through all the lying days of my youth”,
which alludes to all the times youth are lied to growing up. The way Yeats uses flower the
represent the beautiful lies we are told and then uses roots as a way of telling us that is how
we grew up. In the last line Yeats says, “ Now I may wither into the truth”, this is
representative as the sad reality of adulthood isn’t as far as you think. The poem as a whole
shows us that there is a stereotype that adults must be smarter than children.
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