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"Sailing to Byzantium" is a novella by the American writer Robert Silverberg. It was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction in February 1985, then in June 1985 with a book edition. The title is from the poem of the same name by W. B. Yeats. The story, like the poem, deals with immortality, and includes quotations from the poem.
Sailing to Byzantium" is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in the 1927 reprint of Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, and then in the 1928 collection The Tower. It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight lines of iambic pentameter.
1. Feb. 1985 · In Sailing to Byzantium, winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 1986, Silverberg weaves a poetic and gripping tale about a man from 1984 called Phillips who mysteriously finds himself in the 50th century. The people in this future epoch (called citizens) do not age and amuse themselves by recreating great historical cities ...
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“Sailing to Byzantium,” by the Irish poet W.B. Yeats (1865-1939), reflects on the difficulty of keeping one’s soul alive in a fragile, failing human body. The speaker, an old man, leaves behind the country of the young for a visionary quest to Byzantium, the ancient city that was a major seat of early Christianity. There, he hopes to ...
Sailing to Byzantium ( Fahrt nach Byzanz) ist ein Gedicht des irischen Schriftstellers William Butler Yeats aus dem Jahr 1927. Es besteht aus vier Strophen zu jeweils acht Versen und schildert eine Reise nach Byzanz (Konstantinopel), die zum Ausgangspunkt von Überlegungen über das Altern, die Kunst und die Suche nach ...
11. Jan. 2017 · ‘Sailing to Byzantium’, as this opening stanza establishes, is about something that is still very much hotly debated and highlighted: how the elderly are neglected by the rest of society. The second stanza describes old men, such as the speaker himself, as worthless things, like a coat hung upon a stick – just as slight, and ...
Sailing to Byzantium (1985) is a science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg. First published in Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine, it has been reprinted both on its own as a stand-alone work, as well as in anthologies.
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