In "He Wishes for the Clothes of Heaven", William Butler Yeats uses an extended metaphor about the "clothes of heaven" to capture the idea that he wishes he could give his loved ones the best he has to offer. The poem expresses that the author would be willing to make great sacrifices to reach the love of his life, Maud Gonne, but in the end the speaker will fail to woo her, as a result of the following. However, Yeats claims that he loves Skirts and says that to him she is more precious than clothes "Twined with golden and silver light", he only says this to exalt himself in the eyes of others. This means that he only wants what he doesn't have and, as a more commonly used expression goes, he doesn't "put his money where his mouth is." A stable relationship needs support, and if Yeats has nothing to support Gonne with other than his dreams, then realistically speaking he has nothing to support her with. In lines 1-4, "If I had the embroidered cloths of the heavens, wrought with gold and silver light, the blue, dim and dark cloths of night, light and dim," Yeats expresses how precious and precious the "cloths of the sky". You can tell how wonderfully they are described, for the speaker states how the "cloths of heaven" are decorated with light, both golden light and silver light, and made of "dim and dark cloths of night and light and of the twilight." Logically, the shoes described by the speaker are not realistic, but this is intentional simply to show the amount of his affection towards Maud Gonne. This is meant to suggest that the speaker believes that if he had a possession, whether spiritually or materially, it was as magnificent as the canvases portray him to be… in the center of the paper… comfortable with being poor; this is shown in line 6, “But I, being poor, have only my dreams.” He is not willing because, by not acting, he demonstrates that he would not "spread the canvases under her feet", because he would never get the canvases; shown in lines 5 and 7, “I would spread the canvases under your feet,” but instead “I spread my dreams under your feet.” Finally, in my eyes it is false, because I see in this poem a prevarication due to the idea that it does not lie to the reader or to the loved one, but to itself; Yeats falsely believes he is in love with Gonne. Love is when a person is attracted both physically and spiritually, or mentally, to a person who would be willing to sacrifice and be faithful to the first person in the same way that they would be faithful and sacrifice for him and her, despite being in harmony with him or her and bringing him or her a benefit.