Sailing to Byzantium

Born in Dublin, Ireland on 13th June 1865, William Butler Yeit was the son of a famous Irish painter John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in Sligo province (parents grew up). He returned to Dublin at the age of fifteen and continued education and study, but immediately he found that he likes poetry. Born in the land of Anglo Ireland, Yeats participated in the Celtic Renaissance, which aimed to promote the Irish traditional spirit, participated in the movement against the influence of Victorian Irish and British dominance culture. Yeats has never learned Gaelic himself, but his writings at the turn of the century comes from Irish myths and folklore. It was the Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne who gave a strong influence on his poetry and in 1889 it was known as a woman who is also known as passionate nationalist politics and beauty. She married another man in 1903 and stayed with Yeats (Ye Zhi himself finally got married to another woman, George Heidelis), but she is still strong in her poetry It is a person.

Yeats was deeply involved in Irish politics In the 1920s, Ireland was independent of Britain, but his poems were a political situation in his country and other European countries, and against American conservatives in London It reflected pessimism. Theory compares Elliot and Ezra Pond. His work has been strongly influenced by the pound since 1910, became more modern in its simplicity and image, but Yeats never gave up strict observance of traditional poetry. He has always had a strong interest in mysticism and occultism, but it is uncomfortable for some readers, but he is not yet constrained to advance his special philosophy. It is more powerful. In 1922 he was appointed Senator of the Free State of Ireland and as a major playwright he is considered an important cultural leader (he is one of the founder of the famous Abbey Theater in Dublin ). One of the great poets. Any language in the century. W · B · Yeats won the Nobel prize in 1923 and died at the age of 73 in 1939.

Sailing by W. B. Yeats to Byzantium: W. B. Yeats' Voyage to Byzantine "first attracted my attention because of the opening line" Elderly Country ". This line stimulated the title of the book, then it became a movie. Also, this poem is also very interesting. It seems to be about pain and age pain, and how the speaker is ready to leave this life and move to Byzantine. I take your heart by E. E. Cummings: I am E. E. I really like this poem written by Cummings "I take your heart." Each time I read it, I read it in a different way, sometimes the inner part of the brackets looks like a second sound; perhaps these lines represent the woman he is talking about. At other times, it looks like a person, the brackets indicate what he is thinking, and his idea is different from what he actually said.

"Navigation to Byzantium" is one of the most inspirational works by Yeats, one of the greatest poems of the 20th century. Written in 1926, including Yeats' largest single collection "The Sailing to Byzantium" in 1928, it is what Yeats needs in old age and it is an important person even if the mind is "fixed" . A clear statement about imagination and spiritual work. Yeats' solution is to leave the country of youth and go to Byzantium.The saint of the city's famous gold mosaic (mainly completed in the 6th and 7th centuries) is his soul You can become a "song" master

"Sailing to Byzantium" is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in The Tower in 1928. It consists of 4 sections of Ottava rima, each section consists of 8 10 syllable lines. It uses Byzantine (Constantinople) journey as a metaphor for spiritual journeys. Yeats explored his thoughts and thoughts on how immortality, art, and human spirit are fusing together. Through the use of various poetry techniques, Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium" describes a figurative trip of a man pursuing his vision of eternal life and his vision of heaven.