Why does the old pensioner spit into the face of time?
W.B. Yeats' old man, in his poem “The Lamentationof the Old Pensioner", spits into the face of time. Themain reason might be his anger and rage. Thespeaker is quite old almost like a broken tree. He haslost his youth, his past friends and lovers. When hereckons the reasons behind his loss, he finds timeresponsible for it. Since time has transfigured him into abroken tree, the poet laments on losinghis past bygone days. The poet also realizes that hecan't go back in time. In other words, he...