Analysis Of Sailing To Byzantium By William Butler Yeats

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The future holds things that are unknown to everybody. But then again we all work so hard to help create the future for one another. In the poem Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats, this a poem about the future. Along with his own personal options of life after death and what happens to one after death. William Butler Yeats lived in the years marked by unprecedented world wars, revolutions, technology innovations, and mass media explosion. Yeats got deep into his nation 's mythological past for insight. The poem has many messages that can be extracted from the its content. The three I found to be most empowering are, younger generations are all about love, we don 't ever know when death will come, and how as someone ages their viewpoints change.

First, based on the poem Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats, younger generations or all about love. Yeats explains this as …show more content…

As young people we do not worry about death because to us, death is a thing with old people rather than young. The fact that when someone young dies it hits people harder than if an older person died because of the way we view it. Young people are meant to live while old people are meant to be the ones that die, not the young. As we are young we care about love and friendship and social status. Then as we age our perspective shifts over to a more valuable way. We begin to live everyday by the minute rather than the hour and start to appreciate the smaller things in life because we begin to realize that any moment it all can be taken away from us. As lines thirty one to Thirty two explain," To lords and ladies of Byzantium, of what is past, or passing, or to come." These lines explain that we don 't know when will happen. It can be taken by death, and without death, there would be things in life that at so valuable, but we would fail to acknowledge

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