Reply To: Assignment on “The Apparitions” by William Butler Yeats

[Olasupo Mashood]

Olasupo mashood

answer to b

The poetic persona hint at inevitability of death,the increasing night represent the approach of death,despite his solitude,the speaker recognized that death remains an unavoidable truth he also explore how aging alters perception,The coat on a coat-hanger, mistaken for an apparition, symbolizes how the old often perceive the mundane as mystical or frightening the speaker also find joy in solitude but he also want companionship who will accept everything he does and won’t make any complaints