The Coming of Wisdom with Time by William Butler Yeats is a very easy poem to connect to. The way I looked at this poem was that when you are young everything is simple but because you are not told certain things. You are "lied to" as a child because some problems are just not for little kids to know or have to deal with.
The lies aren't like the sky is red but more of a subtle lie. For instance, if a child has parents who are not happy together and fight all of the time when they are not around their child the child could believe that they have a happy family. In truth, however, the family is falling apart and nothing is what it seems. As soon as that child grows up and learns the "truth" their whole childhood would just appear to be a big lie.
I don't think that this poem is necessarily about something as drastic as that, but I do think that it is about finding out lies from your past and then dwelling on them. It is especially about lies that were told during ones youth because those were a lot of people's happiest years and anyone would be sad to find out that, even a part of, what they believed to be reality was a lie.
This poem is so easy to connect to because everyone has been told hurtful lies in their life. This was a really short poem but it was oh so clever.
It was clever and profound too. :)
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