Poetry by William Butler Yeats
By Books LLC
2010
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Chapters: Sailing to Byzantium, Politics, the Second Coming, Blood and the Moon, Easter, 1916, a Prayer for My Daughter, the Circus Animals' Desertion, the Stolen Child, on Being Asked for a War Poem, an Irish Airman Foresees His Death, Under Ben Bulben, Lake Isle of Innisfree, Adam's Curse, the Winding Stair and Other Poems, the Wild Swans at Coole, Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, the Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, in the Seven Woods, the Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, the Scholars, Michael Robartes and the Dancer, Ego Dominus Tuus, a Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety, the Rose of Battle, Remorse for Intemperate Speech, the Tower. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 96. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Sailing to Byzantium" is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in the 1928 collection The Tower. It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight ten-syllable lines. It uses a journey to Constantinople as a metaphor for a spiritual journey. Yeats explores his thoughts and musings on how immortality, art, and the human spirit may converge. Through the use of various poetic techniques, Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium" describes the metaphorical journey of a man pursuing his own vision of eternal life as well as his conception of paradise. Sailing to Byzantium is one of Yeatss most inspired works, and one of the greatest poems of the twentieth century. Written in 1926 and included in Yeatss greatest single collection, 1928s The Tower, Sailing to Byzantium is Yeatss definitive statement about the agony of old age and the imaginative and spiritual work required to remain a vital individual even when the heart is fastened to a dying animal (the body). Yeatss solution is to leave the country of the young and travel to Byzantium, where the...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=472641
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