Summary Of The Poem Sailing To Byzantium

Throughout the poem he refers to the ocean and water frequently. From previous research, I learned he had died of alcoholism. Perhaps the ocean is an analogy for his drinking problem depicting himself drowning in his problems. The word choice throughout the poem is very vivid, giving myself the ability to paint a graphic picture while reading. For example, “I see a corpse upon the waters lie/ With eyes turned, swelled and sightless, to the sky.” These very first lines give me the imagery of a scene from a movie like “Pirates of the Caribbean.” The author made it very easy to relate to and make a connection with the statement of being lonely in life. As for the world view, it is evidently stated in line 8. Branwell discuss how the sea is calmer than the world's turmoil. Now that means there is some serious issues going on throughout the world because typically oceans are never calm. This poem is much more negative and sounds like it is written to express regret in some manner. It seems like the author struggled mentally and is unable to get out of his own way. The second stanza talks about having an outward frame of a life with great potential, while he is trapped in his inner frame of regrets and

The timeless essence and the ambivalence in Yeats’ poems urge the reader’s response to relevant themes in society today. This enduring power of Yeats’ poetry, influenced by the Mystic and pagan influences is embedded within the textual integrity drawn from poetic techniques and structure when discussing relevant contextual concerns.

William Butler Yeats is one of the most esteemed poets in 20th century literature and is well known for his Irish poetry. While Yeats was born in Ireland, he spent most of his adolescent years in London with his family. It wasn’t until he was a teenager that he later moved back to Ireland. He attended the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin and joined the Theosophical Society soon after moving back. He was surrounded by Irish influences most of his life, but it was his commitment to those influences and his heritage that truly affected his poetry. William Butler Yeats’s poetry exemplifies how an author’s Irish identity can help create and influence his work.

The journey,not the arrival is what matters in human experience. It can be said that when one takes the first steps of a journey, that person will be forever changed as they will no longer be the way they were. As on travels, through physical or inner journeys the experiences one has, the decisions one makes and the affects of those decisions enables one to grow and develop in new and unexpected ways. These ideas are explored in Roberts frosts poem the “road not taken” and Peter Skrzynecki's poem “crossing the red sea” in both poems, journey is represented as both a physical and inner state of journeying that all people experience Journeys last forever. Decisions that lead to another can continue throughout one’s life. Proof of this is embedded in “way leads on to way”,a form of repetition shows the continuous nature of the process of journeying. “Ages and ages hence” also represents the similar idea, future tense is used show how the future is undeniably full of new and exciting journeys. Both quotes allow us to understand that the persona understands that journey is continuous/that a journey never ends. Frost shows us that there are a number of possibilities that can all be assessed once a decision is made.

A wise man does not want to die without his words of wisdom making their own mark on this world. By the third stanza he uses an image of the ocean as a symbol to describe last generation of men that dieing. By using the ocean he shows that by the waves crashing against rocks it is giving life in a green bay.

Sattareh Farman-Farmaian paints a vivid picture of her journey from childhood to her adult life and her encounters of the Islamic Revolution as they unfold in her home country of Iran. Even when she is studying or working in the United States, Farman-Farmaian is in constant contact with her relatives back home as well as constantly reading the news of the area as it unfolds, allowing her to give the best reactions to these events as they impacted her and her family directly. Her close relation to these events throughout the story Daughter of Persia allows Farman-Farmaian to give one of the best accounts of someone who lived through the Islamic Revolution.

Through the use of vigorous, ritualistic imagery and war-like diction, Yeats accentuates the inauspicious course of events the world has faced. Yeats, in the first stanza, uses violent and warlike imagery and diction to illustrates that the world is on the threshold of an apocalyptic revelation. Yeats describes that the world is going to “fall apart,” and that “mere anarchy is [loosened] upon the world,” and ‘everywhere...innocence is drowned.” The use of violent diction in the first stanza contributes to the concept that world is going to end, and that humanity cannot recover from the destruction the world has caused, but Yeats uses ritualistic imagery to describe “a rough beast” with “a shape [of a] lion body and head of a man” to show that this “New Age” will bring some hope. William Yeats uses this violent and ritualistic imagery and diction to illustrate that in order to bring a new era, the old epoch must die violently, which is his concept of “the second coming.” Yeats believes that a violent revolution will bring hope to a new era. Similarly, how the Russian Revolution was destructive and brought an end to an era and started a new age which bought Russia to new heights, Yeats believes that a violent end of the world can bring the new world to new

The Poem begins with a personification of death as "kindly" (3). By doing this, the speaker introduces a portrayal on death that might have conflictions. Most of the times, death has a negative connotation. Whether it is an inevitable or tragic view, it opposes to what is seen in the poem. The speaker accepts death as a friendly invitation when the time is right, rather than something that is bound to happen. The speaker then joins immortality, personified as a passenger in a carriage. Immortality simply cannot be a passenger as it is a non-living thing. The reasoning for this could be that immortality ties together the link between the speaker and death, ultimately introducing the voyage to come. The first stanza sets a precedent of a meter to follow throughout most of the poem. The first line contains eight

Reading the epic poem The Odyssey I was reminded of my own homecoming story. I much like Odysseus am a member of the military. I serve as a medic with the 2nd Battalion 23rd Marine Regiment of the 4th Marine Division. In December of 2009 I was deployed in Support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn. While I didn’t have anything close to the difficulty that Odysseus had going home, I did have quite a long journey home from that deployment filled with many tribulations. It was the day before I was to get on a plane and depart the combat zone when a massive sandstorm swept through the area and grounded all non-urgent air assets for 72 hours. I like Odysseus wanted nothing more then to see my wife and daughter and after long hard

The poem states “With proud thanksgiving a mother for her children. England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit. Fallen in the cause of the free.” This means even though the mother solutes her children she also still mourns for them, she also solutes others during the war and mourns for other people's children too, she also says they will never be forgotten for their hard work. The Speaker is speaking to anyone who has lost a loved on in the war and she could be speaking to anyone who is going through what she is. The message is to let other people know the effects of what could happen to their loved ones. The mood & tone of this poem is depressing because it has to do with death in

As years pass further away from childish thoughts, adults are allowed to reflect on their youth, while the youth dutifully study the already matured. This is exemplified in the writings of E. B. White and W. B. Yeats, and the insight gained upon reading them. In Yeats’s essay, “Reveries over Childhood and Youth”, he recounts of how his grandfather was a feared man deserving of admiration. “Once More to the Lake” is a recollection of White’s experience and emotions pertaining to his childhood summers spent at the lake. In both these essays, Yeats and White show that with age comes wisdom and respect, but it does not inherently entail contentment or satisfaction.

The poem “trying to reach people without email” by Pier Giorgio Di Cicco expresses the theme that the use of technology has made people more isolated and unsocial. The poem is about the poet’s views on how much technology has effected people more specifically, in a negative way. Cicco explains how unsocial humans have become because of technology using simple but effective literary elements, more notably simile, metaphor and diction. The way in which the poet uses similes helps the reader understand how technology has made humans unsocial.

The poem may have been read and understood differently but the theme of the poem was that the things that occur in life happen because that’s the way of life. The poem explains that a man passes away after being alive and compares it to the fact that after a tide rises it also dies when it falls.

In the first stanza, Hardy compares his dying relationship to his surroundings. He sets the tone during this stanza as melancholy and gloomy. The water in the pond represents Hardy’s relationship and how it is not progressing in line 1, “We stood by a pond that winter day”....  A pond is a small body of water that rarely has movement just like Hardy’s relationship. The sun is described as “white” in line 2 and is seemingly deprived from the power to warm and nurture. This intensifies the tone of sadness and hopelessness. During the third line of the first stanza the leaves that “lay on the

The twenty-four old romantic poet John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” written in the spring of 1819 was one of his last of six odes. That he ever wrote for he died of tuberculosis a year later. Although, his time as a poet was short he was an essential part of The Romantic period (1789-1832). His groundbreaking poetry created a paradigm shift in the way poetry was composed and comprehended. Indeed, the Romantic period provided a shift from reason to belief in the senses and intuition. “Keats’s poem is able to address some of the most common assumptions and valorizations in the study of Romantic poetry, such as the opposition between “organic culture” and the alienation of modernity”. (O’Rourke, 53) The irony of Keats’s Urn is he likens