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    A Study Guide for William Butler Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium"
    A Study Guide for William Butler Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium"
    A Study Guide for William Butler Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium"
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    A Study Guide for William Butler Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium"

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    A Study Guide for William Butler Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 19, 2016
    ISBN9781535832496
    A Study Guide for William Butler Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium"

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      A Study Guide for William Butler Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium" - Gale

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      Sailing to Byzantium

      William Butler Yeats

      1928

      Introduction

      First published in the collection The Tower in 1928, Sailing to Byzantium explores the dichotomies between age and youth, as well as sensuality and spirituality. The speaker is an aged man who comes to the realization that youth and the sensual life are no longer an option for him, and he commences on a spiritual journey to the ideal world of Byzantium. Yeats felt that the civilization of Byzantium represented a zenith in art, spirituality, and philosophy. It seems logical then that in the poem Byzantium symbolizes a place where the spiritless can journey in order to seek out the spiritual. In Byzantium the speaker is able to discard the natural element of his body in favor of the immortal, spiritual element of his

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