The Legacy of 'When You are Old'
Yeats' poem "When You Are Old" has quite a literary afterlife, with many people choosing it as a favorite to record or as inspiration for their own artistic creation in either music or film. Here are a number to explore:
- The following is a reading by Colin Farrell of “When You Are Old” for Imagine Ireland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ttlSOHESJE
- Actor Tom Hiddleston reads “When You Are Old” with Spanish translation on screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TcmrJi1688
- The following is a 10-minute documentary from the Favorite Poem Project Chicago in which a young woman and her grandfather discuss their shared favorite, “When You Are Old,” and what it has meant to them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKGqgAIW4Lc
- The poem "When you are old" by William Butler Yeats, read by Emma Fielding with a Music for Strings in c#-minor op.429trio by Herb Weidner and a Painting by Jakob Schikaneder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZNpTxGG2VE
- Martina McBride’s song that is inspired by Yeats’ poem and also titled “When You Are Old”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B120Qi8HKGo
- Actor Matthew Macfadyen reads the poem "When you are old" by W.B Yeats. 1 of 3 poems read by him on the DVD called Essential Poems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg8FqPpJC4I
- Synced images of Yeats & Maud, as Anthony Ronaldson sings a version of “When You Are Old”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0UAeMBmD50
- Award-winning singer/actor from Hong Kong, sings “When You Are Old” in Chinese at the 2015 Spring Festival, as filmed by CCTV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmeCMxpfIQE
- A short feature film based on “When You Are Old:” The confusion of first love, sexual awakening and the poetry of WB Yeats explored in BAT EYES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyDEEQoVqjY
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