ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Written in 1926 (when Yeats was 60 or 61), “Sailing to Byzantium” is Yeats’ definitive statement about the agony of old age and the imaginative and spiritual work required to remain a vital individual even when the heart is “fastened to a dying animal” (the body).

Detailed explanation-2: -W.B. Yeats made his debut as a poet in 1887, but in his earlier period his dramatic production outweighed his poetry. Along with playwright Lady Gregory, he founded the Irish Theatre, which later became the Abbey Theatre. His plays are often based on Irish legends and are full of mysticism and spiritualism.

Detailed explanation-3: -"Byzantium” is Irish poet W.B. Yeats’s meditation on the relationship between mortality and immortality, the physical world and the spiritual world, and humanity and art.

Detailed explanation-4: -William Butler Yeats, (born June 13, 1865, Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland-died January 28, 1939, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France), Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.