For Anne Gregory By William Butler Yeats

The presented poetry piece "For Anne Gregory" has been composed by "William Butler Yeats". The poet has brought out the difference between loving someone for the external beauty and the inherent inner beauty. The poem can be summarized in following ways : -

State of despair - The young man says that he has been thrown into a state of hopelessness by the young woman's great honey colored ramparts at her ear. He remarks that he would never love her alone but his love was for her yellow hair. Her ear is compared to a rampart or a wall built to defend a castle, having a broad top with a walk-way.

True love - The young woman says that she can get a hair-dye and dye her hair in brown, or black or carrot color. She wants to do so because the young man in despair may love her for her own sake and not for the yellow color of her hair.

Love of god - The young man says that he heard an old religious man announce solemnly the previous night that he had found a passage from the holy book to prove that only God could love the young lady for her own sake and not for her yellow hair.