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The author of this poem wrote later that in the title location, creative art was not individual but artists were "absorbed in their subject matter and that the vision of a whole people." In the poem, the artists are producing a form "of hammered gold and gold enamelling to keep a drowsy emperor awake." The title event is caused by the observation that "these dying generations" do not care about "monuments of unageing intellect," which is the reason for the opening observation that "that is no country for old men." The period just before the end of the Platonic Academy and the opening of San Sophia is the destination envisaged in -- for 10 points -- what poem by W.B. Yeats?
The author of this poem wrote later that in the title location, creative art was not individual but artists were "absorbed in their subject matter and that the vision of a whole people."
Sailing to Byzantium