This poem asserts that the only school for the soul is "studying monuments of its own magnificence," and it closes by describing "Grecian goldsmiths" who "keep a drowsy Emperor awake" and a form that tells of "what is past, or passing, or to come.
This poem asserts that the only school for the soul is "studying monuments of its own magnificence," and it closes by describing "Grecian goldsmiths" who "keep a drowsy Emperor awake" and a form that tells of "what is past, or passing, or to come." The narrator of this poem asks figures "in the gold mosaic of a wall" to "consume my heart away," and those (*) "sages standing in God's holy fire" must help the poet "into the artifice of eternity." Unless "soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing," this poem claims, "an aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick." The narrator of this poem leaves home because it is "no country for old men." For 10 points, name this W.B. Yeats poem about a voyage to a city renamed Constantinople.
This poem asserts that the only school for the soul is "studying monuments of its own magnificence," and it closes by describing "Grecian goldsmiths" who "keep a drowsy Emperor awake" and a form that tells of "what is past, or passing, or to come.
\"Sailing to Byzantium\"