Sailing ot Byzantium

Question 1

theme of aging and mortality

Answer 1

‘that is no country for old men’ ‘ the young in one anothers arms, all caught in that sensual music’

Question 2

theme of art is immortal

Answer 2

‘tattered coat upon a stick’
‘grecian goldsmith make’
‘keeping a drowsy emperor awake’ ‘[setting] upon a golden bough to sing’

Question 3

spiritual transcendence + expalin qoute

Answer 3

‘sailing to Byzantium’, this symbolizes Yeates desire to leave behind his aging body and sensual life for a higher, eternal exisistance
‘ oh sages standing in gods holy fire as in the gold mosaic of a wall’

Question 4

alliteration

Answer 4

‘fish, flesh, or fowl’

Question 5

sybolism of art, civilisation and erudation

Answer 5

‘byzantium’

Question 6

explain intertext

Answer 6

‘golden bough’ the golden bough is an allusion to virgils Aeneid, the story of a protagonst who uses a golden branch as ticket inot the under world

Question 7

contrast

Answer 7

’ the young in one anothers arm’ vs aged men ‘ but a paltry thing