Which words and phrases convey the impression that the poet s love was was not true In his poem When You Are Old William Butler Yeats - talks about deep true love He shows how love can be more than just beauty or looks The poem uses some words and phrases to show that the poet s love is true The first line tells us that the speaker s love is strong and lasting He talks about the woman being old and grey and full of sleep This shows how the love he feels is not about her looks but something deeper In the second stanza Yeats writes How many loved your moments of glad grace And loved your beauty with love false or true Here the word false tells us that many people loved her for her beauty but that love was not true It was only about how