The poet George Seferis claimed to have had a dream about a "stern-faced man," presumably its author, while translating this poem into Greek.
The poet George Seferis claimed to have had a dream about a "stern-faced man," presumably its author, while translating this poem into Greek. Its final stanza's description of a "form as Grecian goldsmiths make of hammered gold" and its first stanza's linking of "birds in the trees" to "those dying generations" are thought to be references to Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale." Taking the same rhyme scheme and iambic pentameter meter as its poet's later work, "The Circus Animals' Desertion," the speaker describes himself as "but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick," and has thus decided to go see the "gold mosaic of a wall" in the titular location. FTP, name this William Butler Yeats poem which begins "that is no country for old men."
The poet George Seferis claimed to have had a dream about a "stern-faced man," presumably its author, while translating this poem into Greek.
“{Sailing to Byzantium}”