Sailing to Byzantium Flashcards
Ireland is not a country for old people
That is no country for old men
Young people are in each other’s arms
The young in one another’s arms
There is a lot of people? idk smth about fish
the mackerel-crowded seas
Whatever is born, dies
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies
The young are drunk in the music
sensual music
The young neglect art and culture which are timeless
all neglect monuments of unageing intellect
An old man is just weak
An aged man is but a paltry thing
Yeats compares his old aging body in a harrowing way
A tattered coat upon a stick
Unless his soul does smth, he is stuck
unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
He sailed to Byzantium
I have sailed the seas and come to the holy city of Byzantium
Hes calling upon sages
O sages
Hes calling the sages to help him focus on the mind
Consume my heart away; sick with desire and fastened to a dying animal
His mind is stuck in his dying/decaying body
fastened to a dying animal
Out of nature
once out of nature
He wants to be reborn into smth a goldsmith makes
such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
The emperor isn’t interested in him
drowsy Emperor
He wants to be set upon a bough
set upon a golden bough to sing
He is still singing about the passing of time at the end and realizes that maybe art is no replacement for living
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
themes
life
death
war
idealism
