Sailing to Byzantium

by William Butler Yeats

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Discuss the poem "Sailing to Byzantium" as a spiritual journey toward perfection and immortality.

What is the theme and the tone of the poem "Sailing to Byzantium"?

In "Sailing to Byzantium," how are themes of mortality and immortality developed?

What is a critical appreciation of Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium"?

What picture is created by the use of the word "tattered" in the poem "Sailing to Byzantium" by W. B. Yeats?

In "Sailing to Byzantium," what does the word "artifice" mean in the phrase "The artifice of eternity"?

How is the theme of art conveyed in the poem "Sailing to Byzantium"?

In "Sailing to Byzantium," what does it mean to be "set upon a golden bough to sing"?

In “Sailing to Byzantium,” what does the speaker want to become? What does it (the being) signify?

Discuss old age in William Butler Yeats's poem "Sailing to Byzantium."

Compare the poems “Sailing to Byzantium” and “Byzantium” with respect to the symbolic space they refer to. What is the function of that space?

Describe the criticism of modern life in the first stanza of "Sailing to Byzantium."

Comment on the theme of art in "Sailing to Byzanitum."

Why is the emperor called drowsy?

How does Yeats use diction and literary devices in the poem "Sailing to Byzantium"?

Scan the following lines from William Butler Yeats's poem "Sailing to Byzantium." Indicate the rhyme scheme. Consume my heart away; sick with desire /And fastened to a dying animal /It knows not what it is; and gather me /Into the artifice of eternity.

What is bothering the speaker at the beginning of “Sailing to Byzantium”? How does he solve this problem? What does art have to do with the solution?

How would you characterize the speaker of "Sailing to Byzantium"?

What are the sailing to Byzantium?

What is the thesis of the poem "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats?

In William Butler Yeats’s poem “Sailing to Byzantium,” what does Byzantium itself represent?

What are the various meaning of Byzantium in "Sailing to Byzantium"?

How are nature, and by association the natural world, depicted in Yeats's poem "Sailing to Byzantium"?

How does the speaker seek to rejuvenate himself through art in "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats?

How is the theme of decay expressed in the poem "Sailing to Byzantium"?

Please give me the general meaning of "Sailing to Byzantium" by the poet W. B. Yeats.

Read William Butler Yeats’ “Sailing to Byzantium,” then select one specific symbol and explain what the symbol represents in the context of the poem.

Could you please help me to know the deep or even the surface meaning of the poem "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats?

How do I do a reader response to "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats? Can you refer to how to include the poem’s use of symbol, myth, archetype, or allegory?

What do I need to do to write an essay in response to the assignment below? "SAILING TO BYZANTIUM" BY W.B YEATS.  Like "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," this poem focuses on an imaginary journey and on a contrast between then and there versus here and now, yet this poem deals much more directly with the subject of art and especially of poetry or song: what it might be like, where it might come from, what it might do for us. How does this poem both pose and answer those questions?

What comparisons or analysis would you draw upon to relate W. B. Yeats's "Byzantium," "Easter 1916," and "Sailing to Byzantium"?

Could you show a comparative analysis on Yeats's poem and Robert Silverberg's novella Sailing to Byzantium?