" This city is the thematic center of two poems which examines its author's artistry alongside "changeless metal" and "the (*) artifice of eternity."
A poem set at this place ends with sculptors channeling dolphins swimming through the "gong-tormented sea" while working in the "golden smithies of the Emperor." In a poem invoking this location, the speaker contrasts "birdsÂ… in their music" and "sensual intellect" with "a form as Grecian goldsmiths make." This city is the thematic center of two poems which examines its author's artistry alongside "changeless metal" and "the (*) artifice of eternity." While going to this city, the speaker of a poem invokes "a tattered coat upon a rag" because "an aged man is but a paltry thing." A poem with this city in its title opens "That is no country for old men." For 10 points, W.B. Yeats wrote a poem titled for "Sailing to" what city?
A poem set at this place ends with sculptors channeling dolphins swimming through the "gong-tormented sea" while working in the "golden smithies of the Emperor.
"Byzantium" [accept "Sailing to Byzantium"; do not accept "Istanbul" or "Constantinople"] 