![]() ![]() This fabled Byzantium representing a paradise-an immaterial realm of wisdom and eternity-separated from the deteriorating quality of life found in the material world.īut the country of McCarthy’s story is no paradise. The man combats these fears by sailing to the shores of Byzantium, where he hopes that the wise sages from ages past may transcend his soul into the fire of immortality. As detailed in four stanzas, Yeats’ poem addresses man’s mortality: describing a man’s anxieties over his approaching age and encroaching death. So begins the Yeats poem from which Cormac McCarthy’s novel- No Country for Old Men-takes its name. ![]() Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder singĪnd therefore I have sailed the seas and come The salmon‐falls, the mackerel‐crowded seas,įish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long – Those dying generations – at their song, ![]() In one another’s arms, birds in the trees ![]()
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