Analysis of Sailing to Byzantium.pptx

The presentation include the following.
Introduction
Subject Matter
Romantic Elements
Major Themes
Symbolism

1. SAILING TO BYZANTIUM ANALYSIS SHABBIR AHMAD STUDENT ID # 12310 CITY UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CUSIT) PESHAWAR PAKISTAN

2. CONTENT 2 ROMANTIC ELEMENTS SYMBOLISM INTRODUCTION SUBJECT MATTER STRUCTURE THEMES

3. INTRODUCTION 3 HISTORICAL CONTEXT ABOUT THE POEM LITERARY CONTEXT “Sailing to Byzantium ” is a poem by W. B. Yeats first published in the1928 collection of poetry “The Tower” He was considered a symbolist whose poetry was a reaction to the naturalistic and realistic poetry of the Victorian age. It was a period of chaos in Irish history when the poem Sailing to Byzantium was written. As a result of the Easter Rising in 1916 by the Irish Republican forces against the British occupation, Irish Free State was formed by a small group of Northern counties.

4. STRUCTURE 4 F our stanzas O ttava rime form R hyme scheme ABABABCC . Sad at the beginning by the arrival of old age Started a spiritual journey to keep his soul alive Iambic Pentameter First Person narrative where the speaker is an old man Form Tone Meter Point Of view

5. SUBJECT MATTER OLD AGE Forget bodily and worldly desires and educate the soul for immortality, to reach a new spiritual state W ants to be out of nature and become an eternal form T ravels to Byzantium in his imaginations soul is more important than worn out body YOUNG AGE The world appear to belong completely to young men. Their world rings with sensual music Active, energetic and full dreams Symbolizes young age with the mating season of birds and fish Age of Chaos CLASH OF OPPOSITES 5

6. ROMANTIC ELEMENTS 6

7. SUBJECTIVITY First person point of view F ocus on spiritual concept that is absent in the materialistic world 7

8. H igh IMAGINATIONS Applied technique of John Keats based on high imaginations Byzantium is a historical allusion, an imaginative world that is free from all the fret and fever of the materialistic world 8

9. B eauty of Nature M inute depiction of natural world Different objects of nature like birds, trees, golden bough and so on P roclaims that Byzantium is a place irrespective of all ages 9

10. MAJOT THEMES OF SAILING TO BYZANTIUM 10

11. OLD AGE Prominent theme in the first two stanzas An old speaker who is feeling at odds in the country of young ones Calls his body a “tattered coat”, a garment that his soul is wearing Travels to Byzantium for spiritual purification and to get immortality 11

12. ART The poem talks about two kinds of art, music and visual art Art is a pathway to immortality The sages reach the immortality by being a part of art Art preserve the past, exist in the present and speak to future generations even after the artist is long gone The speaker also wishes to become art hismself 12

13. MORTALITY The speaker makes an imagined spiritual journey, with his mind/soul not his body, to the long-lost holy city of Byzantium. The speaker emphasizes the separation between the mortal body and soul The speaker wants to join the sages mosaic who have left their mortal bodies and overcome the mortality. 13

14. SYMBOLISM GOLD Symbol of spiritual peace T he speaker wants to acquire the form of gold to become immortal and peaceful BIRDS T he birds in the trees represent the young age unaware of mortality. T he golden bird which the speaker wants to become id a sign of immortality. MUSIC Sensual music of the “that country”, limited to five senses, lacks trascendence of intellect. Music of the soul/eternity the speaker wants to learn at spiritual level from the sages 14

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