Comment on the Spiritual Journey of the speaker in Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium”.
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Distinguish between the following pairs of words meat, meet pail, pale bear, bare. 5. Shakespeare says only a fool thinks that he is wise. 6. Chief mountains of India are the Himalayas the Vindhyas the Ghats and the Aravallis. 7. Most nouns form their plurals by adding s as : dogs, hens cats etc. 8. It was evening the sun was setting the birds were flying to their nests and the darkness was prevailing fast. 9. Reading maketh a full man writing an exact man speaking a ready man. 10. He is a perfect gentleman such a man is a jewel in the society. 11. To err is human to forgive divine. 12. I have no home therefore I can't ask you to stay with me.
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Sailing to Byzantium focuses on the journey of the soul, allegorically expressed by Yeats placing the speaker on a sea-going vessel, about to reach Byzantium having left behind a country that is not for old men. This could be Ireland or life lived as a mortal, in the real world of flesh and blood.