William Butler Yeats was an Irish nationalist poet who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923. Some of his poems discuss a woman with yellow hair and young men despairing over her because of her hair color alone rather than who she is. In the poems, the woman considers dyeing her hair but is told by a religious man that only God could love her for herself rather than her yellow hair.

2.  William Butler Yeats was
an Irish nationalist. He
was educated in London
and Dublin, and was
interested in folklore and
mythology. He won the
Nobel prize for literature
in 1923
 Born:- 1865
 Died:-1939

3. “Never shall a young man,
Thrown into despair
By those great honey-coloured

4. Ramparts at your
ear,
Love you for
yourself alone
And not your yellow
hair.”

5. “But I can get a hair-dye
And set such colour there,
Brown, or black, or carrot,
That young men in despair
May love me for myself alone
And not my yellow hair.”

6. “I heard an old
religious man
But yesternight
declare
That he found a
text to prove

7. That only God, my dear,
Could love you for
yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.”

8.  Despair: Complete loss or
absence of hope.
 Honey-Coloured: Yellow Coloured
 Ramparts: A defensive wall with
a broad top and usu.
 Yesternight: Last night