For Anne Gregory - CBSE English Poem Class 10 by W B Yeats. An Explanation by Commander S. Mohan This poem is about how the conventional sense of beauty can make a person depressed. Every civilization has its own notion of beauty. Take the example of fair colour. The number of advertisements promising a fair skin is a testimony of the appeal of fair skin across the world. In this poem a young person is worried about her yellow hair which is making a rampart like appearance around her ears. A rampart is the wall around a fort. The poet advises that we should make friends with a person not for his physical appearance but for his internal beauty. A person can make cosmetic changes by applying make-up but that won't be able to change his or her internal personality. The last stanza says about the depth of despair. It says that only God can love a person and not his/her physical appearance. 'Never shall a young man, thrown into despair, By those great honey colored ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone, And not your yellow hair'. 'But I can get a hair-dye and set such colour there, Brown, or Black, or Carrot, That young men in despair May love me for myself alone, And not my yellow hair'. 'I heard an old religious man but yesternight declare, that he had found a text to prove... That only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone, And not your yellow hair'. Follow us: http://www.facebook.com/SuccessCD http://google.com/+successcds https://twitter.com/entranceexam https://twitter.com/successcds http://www.youtube.com/successcds1 http://www.youtube.com/englishacademy1
