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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.
1927 – Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, poetry and fiction [2] 1927 – The Resurrection, a short play first performed in 1934; 1928 – The Tower, includes "Sailing to Byzantium" [2] 1928 – The Death of Synge, and Other Passages from an Old Diary, poems [2] 1928 – Sophocles' King Oedipus: a version for the modern stage
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.
In the 20th century, William Butler Yeats used the form in several of his best later poems, including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Among School Children". [3] So did Kenneth Koch for instance in his autobiographical poem "Seasons on Earth" of 1987. [4] In America Emma Lazarus wrote the poem An Epistle that consists
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