Sailing To Byzantium Comments

A really beautiful contrast to this poem by Yeats is 'I Am Listening to Istanbul', by the famous Turkish poet Orhan Veli Kanik. An exquisite poem.

I like aspects of 'Sailing to Byzantium' by Yeats, but it is obvious Yeats had not been there, the light, the colour, the smells are all missing.

Yeats simply says through this poem that the animate nature is devoid of spirit and temporary only but the inanimate art, poetry created by him is full of spirit and is immortal and permanent.

In My Top five Poems. Swapping places at times with William Blake's Tyger Tyger for the number one spot. Ever since I figured out how to read Blake's Rhyming. I have yet to hear any Poetry Reader rhyme " What immortal hand or eye" correctly to " frame thy fearful symmetry" Eye and 'try' in symmetry gots to rhyme yo.

You Have to Hear Terence McKenna Read It.

Another poem by Yeats which I studied at university, and have never forgotten. 'This is no country for old men.' Like my country in a way. 'all neglect/ Monuments of unaging intellect'. The young have different tastes than the old, for sure.

I like The Fiddler of Dooley as much.

..........a marvelous masterpiece......I too, would love to be a crown fashioned purely from Byzantium gold... and set with diamonds....

This is poem about the brevity of youth and beauty It is written with such insight and majesty that i am overwhelmed. We all have lived or are living or soon will this glorious brief spell Remember and revel in it to the depths of your soul then Let go Donal

One of the signal poems of the Twentieth Century, included in every anthology of English poetry.

A joy to read and to listen to. Hearing Yeats read it on YouTube is a treat.

I believe (correctly, I hope) it was Henry Ford, the creator of the production line for auto manufacturing, who, when asked about the color for his automobiles, famously said: 'You can have any color you like, as long as it's black.' I believe you can rate this poem any way you like, as long as it's 10. :)

THIS HAS BECOME A TIMELESS CLASSICAL PIECE OF POETRY & IS ALSO INCLUDED IN THE CURRICULUM OF ENGLISH LITERATURE OF MANY UNIVERSITIES! PEOPLE DARING TO RATE SUCH A MASTERPIECE DO NO DISCRETID TO YEATS - BUT ONLY TO THEMSELVES! ! ! ! ! -RAJ NANDY

This could possibly be almost the perfect poem! Certainly one of the most beautiful with nearly every poetic nuance and technique represented. What a guy, that Yeats. Love him. Love this.

this poem is so great, it compains myth with reality.

Probably one of the most beautiful and under-rated poems ever