William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium 

Excellent analysis of a wonderful poem. Thanks!

I never met a person who every second of their life wasn't dealing with the question of what their life meant, what they should be doing, who they were, and wasn't trying to be something for others. Can't get away from it for a second. Bullshit about getting caught up in blah blah blah So I don't know what the hell this guy is talking about.

There were a few exoduses from the British Isles following political upheavals to the eastern Mediterranean (and Constantinople in particular), and traffic coming back after the Ottomans consolidated Anatolia. _[R]ome - the Eternal City - is where the heart is and "wherever two meet ..."_

Thank you! Byzantine empire is often associated with palace intrigues and corruption. But this poem offers another interesting view.

My favorite philosophy teacher Please never take the channel down I'm going to be watching for the rest of my life I'll never be bored 😄

Now we just need to prove that a soul exists to support the premise. Thank you as always for your wonderful lectures professor.

Do you have a video on Hamlet?

Victorian obsession with ethnology, but his identification of a Celtic racial type was useful to Yeats. Extending anglo-saxon tyranny and racism.