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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Wonderful explanation as ever! I just found a similarity between the old man journeying to Byzantium, having understood that this mortal, familiar world has become so foreign to him, and the old fellows 'cabined, cribbed and confined'(sarcastic, of course) in the grand mansions of the modernised world, hence, being sent to the 'Briddhasram' for 'refuge'.

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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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I feel this poem was more like a transforming poem both for yeats and for the readers. The poem uses the word gold here which can be taken as a symbol of peace but if we look from another perspective it will not be wrong to say that the recurring word gold or golden can be a modern world which only keeps floating on the artificial shine or glamour. Gold is a metal which captures the beauty of the buyer and so the poet wants to be captured just like the gold so that people don't forget him. He tries hard to be remembered though the nature of the world is to be forgotten. Thank you ma'am for this amazing explanation ❤🌈

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Ma'am; You've shared some more valuable points which points excited me to say something. This poem is of my 3rd semister syllabus at BHU one week ago my prof have completed this poem. Her explanation was also better but she didn't delivered more relative points about this poem. I don't know why she did it by the way. Ur explanation is far better than my BHU prof. Plz make a vdo on Savitri by Sri Aurobindo

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Beautiful explanation mam! your video display , the relevant pics, the poem, your voice everything is so calm and understandable .. It was to the point... A suggestion : pls after explaining, do give tips how to write this poem as an essay . important points to be highlighted and important quotes in this poem...

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