William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium

A reading and analysis of W. B. Yeats's poem, "Sailing to Byzantium." ‪@PhiloofAlexandria‬

[@Ettyofacts]

My favorite philosophy teacher Please never take the channel down I'm going to be watching for the rest of my life I'll never be bored 😄

[@mileskeller5244]

Now we just need to prove that a soul exists to support the premise. Thank you as always for your wonderful lectures professor.

[@briandwi2504]

Excellent analysis of a wonderful poem. Thanks!

[@Tm-kt3uw]

Thank you! Byzantine empire is often associated with palace intrigues and corruption. But this poem offers another interesting view.

[@facilegoose9347]

There were a few exoduses from the British Isles following political upheavals to the eastern Mediterranean (and Constantinople in particular), and traffic coming back after the Ottomans consolidated Anatolia. _[R]ome - the Eternal City - is where the heart is and "wherever two meet ..."_

[@marcosm5183]

Do you have a video on Hamlet?

[@PhiloofAlexandria]

No, but what a good idea!

[@WorthWild-ph1ry]

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[@edwardj3070]

I never met a person who every second of their life wasn't dealing with the question of what their life meant, what they should be doing, who they were, and wasn't trying to be something for others. Can't get away from it for a second. Bullshit about getting caught up in blah blah blah So I don't know what the hell this guy is talking about.

[@AudioPervert1]

Victorian obsession with ethnology, but his identification of a Celtic racial type was useful to Yeats. Extending anglo-saxon tyranny and racism.

[@Tm-kt3uw]

Why do you always complain about supposed white racism? Before this you had issue with white women on cover photo of another video.