In this poem Yeats is writing about his emotions and feelings about life, death and his concerns about why Maud Gonne refused to love him. The poem starts off by talking about the heavens as being cold, “Ice burned and was but the more ice”. Yeats is referring to the heavens as cold because he believes that the heavens are unwelcoming and that no matter where he goes after he dies; he will never be happy. All Yeats had of Maud were memories and he is very confused and sad about what is going to happen in his afterlife, whether it is going to be good or bad. He is worried whether Gonne will be there with him in heaven. At the end of the poem Yeats has a realization that heaven must be good, and he is no longer scared of death.
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