CBSE Class 10 · English · board exam 2027
Chapter 10: For Anne Gregory — notes
The chapter’s 4 parts in the book’s order — the first idea of each and the points Medha Ma’am writes on the board — and the summary at the end. The full lesson and a check question for each part are in the app.
1. What the poem is about
Okay, so let's start with the poem itself.
- • Poem = a conversation
- • Speakers: a young man and a young woman (Anne Gregory)
- • Topic: can she be loved for herself alone?
2. The young man's first speech - the honey-coloured ramparts
Okay, so let's look at the young man's first speech.
- • 'Never shall a young man... Love you for yourself alone'
- • 'honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear' = her yellow hair
- • ramparts = high, wide walls around a castle/fort
- • Young men 'thrown into despair' = overwhelmed, helpless before her hair
3. The young woman's reply - she offers to dye her hair
Okay, so now the young woman gives her reply.
- • Her hair is yellow
- • She can dye it: Brown, or black, or carrot
- • Reason: so young men may 'love me for myself alone / And not my yellow hair'
4. The young man's second speech - the old religious man's text
Okay, so in the final stanza, the young man brings in another voice to settle the whole argument.
- • 'I heard an old religious man / But yesternight declare'
- • He found 'a text to prove'
- • Only God could 'love you for yourself alone / And not your yellow hair'
Summary
Okay, so let's recap this poem. It's a conversation between a young man and a young woman, Anne Gregory. And the question they're talking about is this — can she ever be loved for herself alone? First, the young man speaks. He says no young man can love her without being overwhelmed by her hair. He calls it honey-coloured, and rampart-like, and yellow. Then Anne Gregory answers him. She says she could dye her hair — brown, black, or carrot. Why would she do that? Just to prove that men could love her for herself, and not for her hair. Finally, the young man ends the argument. And how does he end it? He quotes an old religious man. This old man had found a text, and that text proved something — that only God could love her for herself alone, and not for her yellow hair. So think about this, through this whole exchange, what question is Yeats really asking us? Are people loved for their true selves, or just for their outward qualities? Now let's look at the board.
AskMedha · Medha Ma’am — CBSE Class 10 English, Chapter 10. Written from the textbook, checked twice.
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