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A 5 page paper which explicates William Butler Yeats’
poem “Sailing to Byzantium.” Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAytsbyz.rtf
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a place known for its wondrous level of new imagination and art, a place that, as the poem indicates, is not a place for old minds who are stuck in
time. The following paper explicates Yeats poem and illustrates how he uses symbolism and tone to keep the poem together and take the reader to the conclusion. Yeats
Poem "In the opening line of the poem Yeats states-: That is no country for old men. A reference both to ancient Byzantium and post 1922 Free State Ireland" (Sailing
to Byzantium). This is the first reference to old age made by Yeats in the poem, but it is a preoccupation that Yeats was known for. And, in his simple
tone we see the strength and determination of a young mind. "The stanza continues by painting a picture of teaming life, the sensuous world of youth, vitality, reproduction, decay
and death. The opening statements are quickly checked by the phrase- Those dying generations, a recognition by Yeats of the transience of life" (Sailing to Byzantium). So, although he was
not a man who enjoyed the notion of life, he was a man who understood that all people must die. And, he contrasted this with the symbolic and real world
of art that lives forever and offers youth and vitality and passion. One critic indicates that, "This contrasts the sensual world with the world of art, best represented by
the magnificence of Byzantium -: I think that in early Byzantium, maybe never before or since in recorded history, religious, aesthetic and practical life were one. In 1912 he had
visited the city of Ravenna, in northern Italy and had seen there some examples of early Byzantium art" where "He recognised that many generations of people had witnessed the pictures,
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