Question

11. Miracle, bird or golden handiwork,
More miracle than bird or handiwork,
Planted on the star-lit golden bough,
Can like the cocks of Hades crow,
Or, by the meen embittered, scorn aloud
In glory of changeless metal
Common bird or petal
And all complexities of mire or blood.
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Answer 1

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Answer 2

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‘Byzantium’ by W. B. Yeats deliberates on the poet’s experiences of being in Byzantium. It describes the process of entering the afterlife.

In the third stanza of ‘Byzantium,’ the poet sees something that looks like a miracle. He sees a golden bird or bird sculpture placed on the starlit golden bow.

Explanation:

The poet here refers to the art and architectural beauty Byzantine is famous for. He calls it a miracle for it was more than a bird or a handiwork. It seems to be crowing like the cocks of Hades, the city of the dead, and ghosts. In its glory of “changeless metal”, the state of immortality, it scorns those “birds of petals”, the mortal ones. The bird image serves as a paradox on the immortality gained by human handiwork. It becomes something that is immune to the impurities and aging of human experience. Art, which is manmade, becomes something that gives reason to human existence.