Question

trace the devlopment of thought and feeling in sailing to Byzantium​

Answer 1

Explanation:

“Sailing to Byzantium,” by the Irish poet W.B. Yeats (1865-1939), is essentially about the difficulty of keeping one's soul alive in a fragile, failing human body.

Answer 2

Explanation:

Byzantium symbolizes a world of artistic magnificence and permenance, conjuring up in the mind of the reader, a rich and inclusive culture such as that associated with the Byzantium empire. The images of birds, fish and young lovers used by Yeats in the first stanza symbolises transience and mortality.