The quote: "Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps" is expressed throughout William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and William Butler Yeats' "When You Are old". This quote conveys that love can come to people either directly with "arrows" or through manipulation with "traps", but Cupid is always the one who decides their fate. Much Ado About Nothing is full of representations of this quote, where couples fall in love naturally or due to deception all because of Cupid's plans. "When You Are Old" is based off love being a personification of Cupid, whilst differentiating true love from the rest of love. In both these texts, love is supposedly being fated by Cupid who carries out his plans out using "arrows" and "traps".
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Yeats recalls the times that he watched other people love the featured woman in the poem, only because of her beauty. However as she grows old and loses this quality, everyone stopped feeling infatuated for her except for the author who never stopped loving her. Yeats displayed his love for the woman in the following lines: "But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face" (Lines 9 & 10). It appears that the author has been struck by one of Cupid's arrows, due to him unrequitedly loving the woman even as she grew old and ugly. Yeats used an interesting choice of adjective here, describing her soul as "pilgrim", meaning that her soul wonders. By this Yeats probably meant that she would always wonder away from any particular man, never settling with what she has found. Towards the end of the poem the author wrote that love had ran away from her, as expressed in the last line: "And hid his face amongst a crows of stars" (Line 12). In this quote love is personified as hiding itself from her. Yeats may of been using love as a metaphor for Cupid himself, abandoning the woman as she grew old for knocking back love when she was young. Throughout "When You Are Old", love is personified as being Cupid. He shot the author with an arrow that made him fall unrequitedly in love with the woman when she was young,
Shakespeare's …show more content…
Yeats recalls the times that he watched other people love the featured woman in the poem, only because of her beauty. However as she grows old and loses this quality, everyone stopped feeling infatuated for her except for the author who never stopped loving her. Yeats displayed his love for the woman in the following lines: "But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face" (Lines 9 & 10). It appears that the author has been struck by one of Cupid's arrows, due to him unrequitedly loving the woman even as she grew old and ugly. Yeats used an interesting choice of adjective here, describing her soul as "pilgrim", meaning that her soul wonders. By this Yeats probably meant that she would always wonder away from any particular man, never settling with what she has found. Towards the end of the poem the author wrote that love had ran away from her, as expressed in the last line: "And hid his face amongst a crows of stars" (Line 12). In this quote love is personified as hiding itself from her. Yeats may of been using love as a metaphor for Cupid himself, abandoning the woman as she grew old for knocking back love when she was young. Throughout "When You Are Old", love is personified as being Cupid. He shot the author with an arrow that made him fall unrequitedly in love with the woman when she was young,