Who is the speaker in the poem To whom is the poem addressed Give reasons for your answer In the poem When You Are Old William Butler Yeats - talks about love beauty and time He paints a picture of what will happen when a person grows old The speaker in the poem is someone who deeply loved the person he is talking to He asks this person to remember their past This beautiful poem shows the passage of time and the value of true love The speaker in the poem is a man who is looking back at the woman he once loved He is talking to her in the future when she will be old The poem is addressed to the woman Yeats loved who is believed to be Maud Gonne a woman he admired deeply The speaker is imagining what the woman will feel when she is