The first stanza describes the place the speaker has left, where ―Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long /
Novels by Philip Roth and Cormac McCarthy take their titles from lines from this poem. The first stanza describes the place the speaker has left, where ―Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long / Whatever is begotten, born, and dies‖.  In the third stanza, the speaker asks ―sages‖ to consume his heart, which is ―fastened to a dying animal‖. The second  stanza contains the image of a scarecrow: ―An aged man is but a paltry thing / a tattered coat upon a stick‖ and the title location is first mentioned in the stanza‘s final line. ―That is no country for old men‖ is the first line of, FTP, what William Butler Yeats poem about a journey to Constantinople?
Novels by Philip Roth and Cormac McCarthy take their titles from lines from this poem.
“Sailing to Byzantium”