Other verses, like one in which the speaker states that "once out of nature," he will never take his "bodily form from any natural thing," reflect major themes taken from the poet's previous collection.
Critic T. Sturge Moore once said that this poem's final stanza was weaker than the rest of the poem due to the mention of a certain word four times in four verses. Other verses, like one in which the speaker states that "once out of nature," he will never take his "bodily form from any natural thing," reflect major themes taken from the poet's previous collection. The speaker earlier calls on "sages standing in God's holy fire" to gather him "into the artifice of eternity" and be the "singing-masters" of his soul. Lending its first line, "That is no country for old men," to the name of novel by Cormac McCarthy, FTP, name this poem first published in The Tower, a work of William Butler Yeats.
Critic T. Sturge Moore once said that this poem's final stanza was weaker than the rest of the poem due to the mention of a certain word four times in four verses.
{Sailing to Byzantium}