How does W.B. Yeats Desire for Immortality
PremiumHow does W B Yeats desire for immortality and show his attitude to old age in Sailing to Byzantium NU W B Yeats wrote Sailing to Byzantium when he was getting old He felt weak and unwanted in the world of young people So he wanted to leave the real world and go to a holy eternal place Byzantium In this poem Yeats shows that he does not like old age He wants to become immortal through art and spirit Old Age Makes Life Difficult Yeats feels sad because of old age He says that old people are like A tattered coat upon a stick This means old people are weak and useless if they don t have a strong soul He feels that in this world only young people are praised Old people are forgotten So he wants to leave this world of youth Desire to Escape the Real