Sailing to Bezantium by W B Yeats
William Butler Yeats * Introduction: The poet is famous for the abbreviation W.B Yeats. ... Through Yeats, we’ll be introduced to the Irish frame of mind. ... As a man of literature like Tennyson and Arnold, Yeats firmly believed that the poet’s position in society is in the center of change. ... One of Yeats visions is that the two jobs, a politician and a poet are merged. ... Yeats is very qualified to play the leading role in the process of change . ... Yeats believed that he as a poet , in a same way as a sculpture, able to give images and ideas credible shapes. ... Yeats is a poet with a message. Yeats tackled the complexity of the position of the poet both as a young man and so as an old man. ... Through out his poetry, Yeats is presenting some kind of alternatives within the physic of the poet. ... Yeats describes his location (i. ... “ Sailing to Byzantium” is an illustration of the longing of the spirit for the imaginary world of Byzantium. ... Yeats hates to admit that he loves the earthly paradise because he cannot be young again. ... Since Ireland is an island, Yeats has to sail to Byzantium. It is a sailing from west to east. ... 1st Stanza: Yeats looks at Ireland and says that it is not a country for old people. ... Yeats tries to accommodate himself to that world by using art as the mediator between the body and soul. ... Therefore, Yeats crossed the seas on a vehicle that is his imagination. ... In this stanza, Yeats arrives to Byzantium. ... Yeats demonstrates some kind of agony resulting from the conflict between his body and soul.