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In W. B. Yeats's poem 'When You Are Old', what do the 'glowing bars' metaphorically represent?
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- 1The hearth as a symbol of domestic warmth
- 2The emotional barriers built around a woman's heart
- 3The confinement and physical decline of old age and loneliness✓
- 4The intense youthful passions that went awry
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The confinement and physical decline of old age and loneliness
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