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"Sailing to Byzantium" is a novella by the American writer Robert Silverberg. It was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction in February 1985, then in June 1985 with a book edition. 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.
“Sailing to Byzantium,” by the Irish poet W.B. Yeats (1865-1939), reflects on the difficulty of keeping one’s soul alive in a fragile, failing human body. The speaker, an old man, leaves behind the country of the young for a visionary quest to Byzantium, the ancient city that was a major seat of early Christianity.
Sailing to Byzantium" is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in the 1927 reprint of Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, and then in the 1928 collection The Tower. It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight lines of iambic pentameter.
How does the poem "Sailing to Byzantium" by W.B Yeats explore the subject of art and poetry, and what answers does it provide? How would you characterize the speaker of "Sailing to...
Sailing to Byzantium. By William Butler Yeats. I. That is no country for old men. The young. In one another's arms, birds in the trees, —Those dying generations—at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long.
1 de feb. de 1985 · In Sailing to Byzantium, winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 1986, Silverberg weaves a poetic and gripping tale about a man from 1984 called Phillips who mysteriously finds himself in the 50th century.
11 de ene. de 2017 · His late work, such as his 1927 poem ‘Sailing to Byzantium’, about growing old, show a thoughtful and contemplative poet whose imagery and references defy easy exegesis (what exactly does the ancient city of Byzantium represent in this poem?).
