”. What I like here is how Yeats appeals to the “honey bees” to “come and build in the empty house of the stare”. This trait in Yeats poetry really appeals to me. It reminds me that no matter what happens, I can always look to the natural world for a sense of continuity.
The other theme that really appeals to me in Yeats poetry is his reflection on the theme of old age, the body and the soul. This is one of the big themes in literature and I must admit that I love Yeats perspective on it. In “Sailing To Byzantium”, Yeats has a vision that “religion, aesthetic and practical life are one” (as he writes in “A vision”). According to Eavan Boland this poem represents “ an immortal fury against the tragedy of decay and the inevitability of death”. Yeats contrasts “The young / In one another’s arms” with “an aged man is but a paltry thing”. I appreciate how he calls on the soul to “sing, and louder sing”. Yeats, in my view, seems to me to be trying to overcome Cartesian Dualism, the idea that the soul which is ...