existence‚ as well as the man painfully aware of war’s wastage of youthful potential. My favourite‚ ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’‚ is Yeats as the disillusioned man whose “heart is sore”‚ the man of “unrequited love”‚ the man aware of mortality. In ‘Sailing to Byzantium’‚ Yeats symbolises universal man in search of meaning and permanence amid the transience of life. Who couldn’t be intrigued by this man! In ‘The Lake Isle of Inisfree’‚ Yeats echoes for me‚ the longing we all experience
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existentialist dilemmas. “Sailing to Byzantium”‚ a poem about the voyage of an old man from an unknown superficial country to a vastly more culturally and spiritually rich Byzantium‚ is considered to be one of Yeats’ masterpieces. This poem‚ which initially seems like a bitter response of an aging man unable to enjoy the care freeness of youth‚ seems to more accurately embody Man’s transcendence of mortality. Yeats use of dichotomies‚ symbolism‚ and allusions in “Sailing to Byzantium” effectively illustrates
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In particular “The Wife of Bath Prologue” is different than “Sailing to Byzantium.” In both stories there is an overall them about old age. The old man in “ Sailing to Byzantium” really is an older man. He’s had a lot more years to experience life in the way that the Wife of Bath has and in multiple more ways.He uses old age as a way to connect spiritually to the natural
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becomes incapable to continue in the physical world. The soul is trapped within the body‚ and when the body can no longer continue in the physical world the soul wants to transcend to an otherworldly plane. In William Butler Yeats’s poem “Sailing to Byzantium” the speaker describes the journey to release the soul from his ageing body. The poet uses imagery of life such as birds‚ trees‚ salmon‚ and mackerel crowded seas. These images of life are “The dying generations” (line 3). How is it that these
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including Sailing to Byzantium‚ The Lake Isle of Inisfree‚ The Second Coming‚ September 1913‚ Easter 1916 and The Wild Swans of Coole. Yeats’s interest in mysticism‚ the occult‚ ancient civilizations‚ eastern religions‚ theosophy and Celtic myths and motifs are highly influential in supporting this tension between the real and the ideal. This statement exemplifies Yeats’s adage; “People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of their mind.” Sailing to Byzantium
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Literature for what the Nobel committee described as: “inspired poetry‚ which in a highly artistic way gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation.” The poems I feel which perfectly support this statement are: “Lake Isle of Innisfree”‚ “Sailing to Byzantium”‚ “The Wild Swans at Coole”‚ “1913” and “1916”. “Lake Isle of Innisfree” is a sentimental poem of escape. Here Yeats wishes to replace the dreariness of London with the idyllic world of Innisfree. The poem opens with an almost hypnotically
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needless death after all? For England may keep faith For all that is done and said’ [Easter 1916] A man in old age alienated vibrant youthfulness: ‘The young in one another’s arms‚ birds in the trees – Those dying generations – at their song’ [Sailing to Byzantium] Death of innocence: ‘The ceremony of innocence is drowned’ [Second Coming] The self in old age‚ forsaken by beauty: ‘when I awake some day to find they have flown away’ [Wild Swans] Death chosen out of a sense of despair: ‘A waste of breath
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Archive. Hofstra U. 28 Jan. 2011 < http://www.jstor.org/pss/441010 >. Frazer‚ James. Golden Bough. 3rd ed. New York: The Macmillan Co.‚ 1935. “The Wild Swans at Coole (poem).” Wikipedia. 14 Jan.2011 28 Jan. 2011 . Rukhaya. “Poetry Analysis: Yeats’s Byzantium.” BRIGHT HUB 3 Oct. 2010 28 Jan. 2011 . Yeats‚ William Butler. Plays and Controversies. New York: The Macmillan Co.‚ 1924. ‐‐‐. The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. New York: The Macmillan Co.‚ 1956.
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Pursuing the ideal is a central theme frequently mentioned within the three poems Sailing to Byzantium‚ Betting on the Muse‚ and Constantly Risking Absurdity and Death. While writing poetry‚ an artist’s main objective is often to reflect on their perception of beauty depicted in either the eternal or temporal realm. Throughout the poetry unit‚ it became quite evident that the eternal realm is the ideal due to its expression of everlasting love and happiness with an emphasized correlation to art and
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of reality verses the ideal. Yeats is an idealist‚ yet he is looking at the reality certainly in two cases ‘September 1913’ and ‘Easter 1916’. We see that Yeats is escaping the reality to his ideal world in ‘The lake Isle of Inisfree’ and ‘Sailing to Byzantium’. As we analyse ‘September 1913’‚ we discover that the poem is a scathing criticism of the mercenary materialism‚ which Yeats felt was rampant in Ireland 1913. ‘September 1913’ is a political ballad that contrasts the old nationalists to
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