Sailing to Byzantium | W. B. Yeats - Line by Line Explanation

What is the central idea of Sailing to Byzantium by W.B.Yeats? Who is the speaker and what are his central concerns and anxieties? This video gives a detailed analysis of every line of this poem, focusing on the central symbols and images. It is a remarkable poem about the anxieties and concerns of modern life and quest for immortality. A must-watch for students of modern English poetry.
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0:00 Intro
00:59 Yeats
03:25 Byzantium
05:11 stanza I
10:29 stanza II
14:32 stanza III
18:21 stanza IV
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Monami Mukherjee, working as Assistant professor of English at Hingalganj Mahavidyalaya, has a teaching experience of over 15 years. She got her education at Lady Brabourne College and University of Calcutta. She completed her MPhil from Calcutta University and has worked in St Xavier’s Institution, Panihati Mahavidyalaya and Hingalganj Mahavidyalaya. She has delivered invited talks in Post Graduation Classes at Lady Brabourne College and Taki Government College. She takes special interest in issues of Feminism, Post-colonialism and Modernism. She is known for her conversational style of teaching and grasp of core concepts in literature.
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But it's also a kind of similarity with a difference, I suppose. Because in the Byzantium poem, the old man is taking on a deliberate journey to the holy land, for achieving, what is known as, transcendental peace(moksha), whereas in the Briddhasram song, the old people are forced to leave the apartment by their successors.

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Tie-ins to The Golden Bough by James Frazer. The golden bough in The Aeneid that Aeneas used to pay the toll to Charon to visit his father in the Underworld. Influence of poem on No Country For Old Men (film and the novel it was based on).

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