Why Byzantium, Yeats?

This poem by William Butler Yeats "Sailing to Byzantium" depicts the poet's inner struggle with his age as pursuing a sanctuary that allows him to unite with his soul. Therefore, since the "country" where he originally lived belonged to a youth, the poet Yeats departs from his hometown of Ireland to "Byzantine sacred place" (Yezhi 937). This paradise of escape from the natural world represents the firmness and acceptance of Yeats Monument of his poetry.

I want to know why Yeats chose Byzantium as the focus of this poem. The third quarter confuses me because it tends to refer to the famous Byzantine mosaic of heaven and sanctum but in the Byzantine culture he links to alchemy images of the transformation being done in Byzantium You can not. . Therefore, I think that Yeats will pass the picture-like surface of culture, but there is no deep relationship in the mind - the borrowed element is set as a mysterious land as opposed to Tir na-n Og Will be

Jack and Yeats point to Byzantine in "history of sailing to Byzantine" and I think that it is a symbol of a better place to imagine. In 1924, when Ye Zhi went abroad over the age of 60 for health, he saw the Italian Byzantine mosaic which remained attractive for centuries. Then he was dissatisfied with the Irish "no country old man" after free love, and he praised the myth of Byzantium. In the year 313 AD, Emperor Constantine of Rome became a Christian with a vision of the cross. In 324 AD, he moved Rome Parliament House to the eastern city Byzantium. The name of the city has been changed to Constantinople after the Emperor, now known as Istanbul in Turkey. Byzantine became the center of the Christian church and was called the eternal city. Today's Rome is familiar because it is the center of Christian's eternal paradise life.

"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 rows. It uses a Byzantine (Constantinople) trip as a metaphor for spiritual journeys. Yeats explored his thoughts and thoughts on how immortality, art, and human spirit are fused. Using various poetry techniques, Yeats' sailing to Byzantium explains his eternal vision and the pursuit of the paradise of his figurative journey.