greykit.poetry — W B Yeats/the-tower

• 1928 [w-b-yeats] Leda and the Swan
  The Tower

  A sudden blow, and the whole Trojan war folded into it — the broken wall, the burning roof and tower and Agamemnon dead — closing on the question of whether she put on his knowledge with his power.

  #sonnet#myth#violence#1920s
• 1928 [w-b-yeats] Sailing to Byzantium
  The Tower

  Yeats leaves the country of the young and sensual — dying generations caught in their music — and sails to the holy city of Byzantium, asking its gold-mosaic sages to gather him out of nature into the artifice of eternity, a hammered golden bird singing of what is past, or passing, or to come.

  #lyric#aging#art#eternity#1920s