Byzantium Poem: Yeats’ Haunting Vision of Eternity
Introduction The Byzantium poem was composed by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1930 and first published in 1932. It imagines a mystical, moonlit city where art and spirit outlast the decay of the body. In just five dense stanzas, Yeats turns a real historical city into a symbol for everything that survives death: … Read more