Yeats tends to sneak religion into his poems. Here is no different. While I don’t feel Yeats actively cared about his reader’s lifestyles, or the condemnation of such. He wanted readers to be able to take a look back on their lives, and realize that of everyone they’ve ever known, the only person whose love was never fleeting was God. Yeats is hoping that being close to death will help encourage those who have strayed in their youth, to open the good book, and look upon it with the same wonder they may have as a child before straying. Yeats wants the reader to remember all the good times they’ve had with loved ones, be they friends, family, or lovers of both romantic and lustful variety. Yeats wants the reader to remember these times, think on them, and how only one person has every loved the reader for who they are, from day one, and will always love the reader, even after death.
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