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Sailing to Byzantium" is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in his collection October Blast, in 1927 [1] and then in the 1928 collection The Tower. It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight lines of iambic pentameter. It uses a journey to Byzantium (Constantinople) as a metaphor for a spiritual journey. Yeats ...
The Tower is a book of poems by W. B. Yeats, published in 1928. The Tower was Yeats's first major collection as Nobel Laureate after receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923. It is considered to be one of the poet's most influential volumes and was well received by the public.
Byzantium" is a sequel to "Sailing to Byzantium" (from The Tower), meant to better explain the ideas of the earlier poem. An important insight on Yeats's concern of death lay in the poem "Byzantium" which further exploits the contrast of the physical and spiritual form and the final stanza concludes by differentiating the two.
Sailing to Byzantium; The Scholars (poem) The Second Coming (poem) September 1913 (poem) The Song of the Happy Shepherd; Song of the Old Mother; The Song of Wandering Aengus; The Stolen Child; Swift's Epitaph
Yeats began by writing epic poems such as The Isle of Statues and The Wanderings of Oisin. [109] His other early poems are lyrics on the themes of love or mystical and esoteric subjects. Yeats's middle period saw him abandon the pre-Raphaelite character of his early work [ 110 ] and attempt to turn himself into a Landor -style social ironist.
"Sailing to Byzantium" is a novella by the American writer Robert Silverberg. It was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction in February 1985, [1] then in June 1985 with a book edition. [2] The title is from the poem of the same name by W. B. Yeats. The story, like the poem, deals with immortality, and includes quotations from the poem.
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 December 2024. 2007 film by Ethan and Joel Coen For the novel, see No Country for Old Men (novel). For the poem that includes this line, see Sailing to Byzantium. No Country for Old Men Theatrical release poster Directed by Joel Coen Ethan Coen Screenplay by Joel Coen Ethan Coen Based on No Country ...