Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium” and The Upanishads
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This paper is an attempt to read Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium” using The Upanishads. Above all, Yeats wishes to go away from this physical and material world and go to Byzantium where all is harmonized and unified. The speaker of the poem is in pursuit of such a world. The Upanishads also teaches the same world for us: according to The Upanishads, we should communicate with Brahman, the highest principle, which symbolizes a state of harmony between the spiritual and physical world. Brahman is the highest goal and is represented by Byzantium in this poem.
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This paper is an attempt to read Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium” using The Upanishads. Above all, Yeats wishes to go away from this physical and material world and go to Byzantium where all is harmonized and unified. The speaker of the poem is in pursuit of such a world. The Upanishads also teaches the same world for us: according to The Upanishads, we should communicate with Brahman, the highest principle, which symbolizes a state of harmony between the spiritual and physical world. Brahman is the highest goal and is represented by Byzantium in this poem.
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