Question

Byzantium
William Butler Yeats
1)What does Yeats say about soldiers ? What
disdains human complexities?
2)"Before me floats an image" - How does
the image look ? What does the cloth symbo-
lize ?
3)What does the poet suggest through "death-
in-life and life-in-death" ?
4)What is the "miacle'? What does it do?
What does it scorn ?
5)What is the speciality of flame mentioned
by the poet ? What is its function?
6)What does the dolphin do? What does the
sea symbolize?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Byzantium

William Butler Yeats

1)What does Yeats say about soldiers ? What

disdains human complexities?

2)"Before me floats an image" - How does

the image look ? What does the cloth symbo-

lize ?

3)What does the poet suggest through "death-

in-life and life-in-death" ?

4)What is the "miacle'? What does it do?

What does it scorn ?

5)What is the speciality of flame mentioned

by the poet ? What is its function?

6)What does the dolphin do? What does the

sea symbolize?

Answer 2

Answer:

The speaker says that before him floats an image—a man or a shade, but more a shade than a man, and still more simply “an image.” The speaker hails this “superhuman” image, calling it “death-in-life and life-in-death.” A golden bird sits on a golden tree, which the speaker says is a “miracle”; it sings aloud, and scorns the “common bird or petal / And all complexities of mire or blood.”

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