Yeat's 'The Scholars'

The use of ‘bald heads’ suggests the appearance of an aging person. It represents an imagery of lifelong study of literature – it would not end even if a person is aging or on the verge of death. This head is resourceful, well-educated that the knowledge and wisdom accumulated throughout one’s life. However they do not always last. A person who studies literature has to keep amending and examining what he/she found in the past.

‘That young men’, a correspondent to the bald heads, are passionate guys who struggle in their experience and the twisted thought of despair. The young men ‘cough[es] in ink’. The feeling engraves in one’s heart just like the ink organized one the paper – written work. This suggests the idea that life is inseparable from the study of literature.

I agree with the ideas. A piece of touching literature brings consonance to readers because a person understands the feeling from the cold lines.

Yeats also makes a point that literary work is not judgmental in a sense that the value shown in the work, rather than the work itself should be judged. Human has sins. But the concept of literary work does not.

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