Whose poem inspired Yeats's 'When You Are Old'?
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Correct answer: B. Pierre de Ronsard
Explanation
Yeats's poem for Maud Gonne (1893) adapts Ronsard's sonnet 'Quand vous serez bien vieille' (1578).
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