Each speaker is clear in what makes them different from those around them. They both feel divergent from society’s desired norm, but in critically different ways. Yeats’ speaker deals with physical ailments, while Lawrence’s character struggles with not feeling the same desires that he has been taught to feel. The speaker from Sailing to Byzantium is certain of his aspirations, while the man in Snake is conflicted about what he should believe. The internal struggle present in Snake is not seen in Sailing to Byzantium, but both poems tell the tale of characters who are lost in their current state, seeking the solution to their condition. They differ in that Yates’ character knows that Byzantium is the remedy to his strife, while Lawrence’s character doesn 't know how to resolve the differences in what he has been taught by humanity, and what he believes he
Each speaker is clear in what makes them different from those around them. They both feel divergent from society’s desired norm, but in critically different ways. Yeats’ speaker deals with physical ailments, while Lawrence’s character struggles with not feeling the same desires that he has been taught to feel. The speaker from Sailing to Byzantium is certain of his aspirations, while the man in Snake is conflicted about what he should believe. The internal struggle present in Snake is not seen in Sailing to Byzantium, but both poems tell the tale of characters who are lost in their current state, seeking the solution to their condition. They differ in that Yates’ character knows that Byzantium is the remedy to his strife, while Lawrence’s character doesn 't know how to resolve the differences in what he has been taught by humanity, and what he believes he