- A Byzantium is an ancient Greek city, now known as Istanbul.
- Sailing to Byzantium is a poem written in 1926 and published in 1928 by William Butler Yeats.
- Sailing to Byzantium is a collection from `The Tower`.
- Sailing to Byzantium written in Irish, British language.
- The poem consists four stanza each stanza has eight lines.
- The form of the poem is Ottava, Rima followed by rhyme scheme ABAB and ABCC.
- The poem is written in Iambic Pentameter, and the last two lines is in couplet.
- The highlight of the poem is that Sailing to Byzantium is a poem in which there is a clash of opposites.
- This poem is the masterpiece of W.B Yeats
- Sailing to the Byzantium is a lyric poem.
- The poem is widely admired for its inventive evocative imagery and masterfully interwoven phrases.
- Literary critic Prank Kermode calls the poem a marvelously contrived emblem of what Yeats took the work of the art to be.
- The action of a poem concerns the problem immersing oneself in life and at the same time striving for permanence.
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