Question

How does the speaker seek to rejuvenate himself through art in "sailing to byzantium" by william butler yeats?

Answer 1

The speaker in this poem by W.B. Yeats is, we may infer from the opening line, an old man, concerned that, in his old age, he has become "but a paltry thing." He feels that to be old is to be little more than a "tattered coat upon a stick, unless / Soul clap its hands and sing"—that is, the soul of a person must be stimulated in order to keep that person spiritually alive....