Throughout life, it is very evident that things do not always remain the same. It is also true that certain places, people, or things do not change never. The issue of change and stability can not only alter your life, but also emotions. Some people hate having the same things happen again and again and thrive on change to some people This concept is also much discussed in the world of poetry, especially in that of Yeats. The critic Richard Ellmann wrote that Yeat's poetry is actually about the opposition between the “world of change” and the world of “ immutability”. very relevant In Yeats's poems: "When you are Old", "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", "The Wild Swans at Coole", "The Second Coming" and "Sailing to Byzantium" all show the struggle and the opposition between the two. change and stability in the world. First of all, through the poem “When you are old” by William Yeats, you can begin to analyze the change and immutability that he is experiencing in his life. This particular poem is written directly to a woman he once loved, but who did not reciprocate his great feelings. Yeats states that this writing is to be read specifically when she is old and grey. He explains that most men falsely loved her only for her beauty, but he loved her soul: "But a man loved the pilgrim soul in you, and loved the sorrows of your changing face." (Lines 7-8) This means that he didn't just care about her appearance and continued to love her no matter how much time changed her. She also points out that because she did not embrace love when she had the chance, the opportunity to have a lover is now gone and she will be alone in her older years. This particular focus of the poem... in the center of the paper... the man in the poem however specifically says: "Once out of nature I will never take my bodily form from any natural thing" (Lines 25-26 ) in the sense that doesn't want to come back as something alive because they always die. Instead, it wants to return as a work of art or "monument of the immutable intellect." All in all, Yeat's poems: "When You Are Old", "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", "The Wild Swans at Coole", "The Second Coming" and "Sailing to Byzantium" all show struggle and opposition between change and stability in the world. Yeats uses images, language and ideas to represent change and immutability, just as critic Richard Ellmann said Yeats's philosophy on the conflict of opposites through the use of vortices shows us as forces different battle against each other, just like the development of a personality or the rise and fall of a new civilization.