Byzantium

miles away from home on a full scholarship was a dream come true. Finally, I had the chance to travel without being a financial burden on my biological mother or adopted family. I was not travelling outside of the United States, but Boston still felt like a whole new country. I decided to major in History because it gives me the opportunity to learn more about the world and how it came to be. Studying abroad in Greece will give me the chance to gain a deeper understanding of History in its respective context. For example, I intend on taking the History of Byzantium course during my semester there as it would offer me the chance to learn about the country’s history and culture in its own historical context. When I return to Tufts, I plan on continuing to study Byzantium specifically by taking the course Women in Byzantium, taught by my History Advisor. This course will allow me to focus a more on a single aspect of Byzantium whilst having knowledge on the overall context gained from CYA’s Byzantium’s course. I have always been interested in adventure, whether that means taking an hour drive to New Orleans from my hometown, Gulfport, or going on a twenty-minute train ride from Tufts into Downtown Boston. Exploring the city, going into shops, and visiting museums and historical sites around the city has helped me understand that specific community whether that being New Orleans or Boston or other towns/cities around me and, in a broader sense, be able to put different…

Sailing to Byzantium starts with hinting to what is coming up next in the poem. A progression from “that country” to Byzantium, a land where art lasts eternally. Written by William Butler Yeats. Published in 1928. Various philosophical thoughts were tackled. Mortality and Immortality,age and youth,artifice and nature. The poem starts by mentioning “that is no country for old men” the country that the poet referred to is unknown. It could be any country.However, it could be the country where the…

Three Messages From Sailing to Byzantium The author of Sailing to Byzantium, William Butler Yeats was one of the most prolific poets of his day. He was from Ireland, but he moved to England once he figured out that England was the place to be. W.B. Yeats used his fantastic skills to write some of the best poetry out there. Adrian Paterson from The Irish Times states, “Yeats today is respected rather than loved.” This is an incredible feat to accomplish, to be so loved that you are respected is…

works of William Butler Yeats, whose poetry reflects his fascination with mysticism and the days of yore. The poem “Sailing the Byzantium” illustrates how William Butler Yeats use of artistic diction and symbolism reveals the parallels between ancient civilization and the cycle of life and communicates the dual themes of obsolescence and perpetuity. Yeats’ elegy, details a metaphoric spiritual journey of renewal to “the holy city” seeking intellectual refuge within an “artifice of eternity”…

The End of Byzantium, by Jonathan Harris, seeks to argue against popular thought that the Ottomans and the Byzantines fought due to their different religions, but that the two were often trading partners that adopted some of each other 's culture. Furthering that the real cause of the down fall of the Byzantine Empire were policies of power grabbing on both sides with the Byzantine trying to meddle in Ottoman policies and made several unwise alliances while the Ottoman 's sultans needed…

‘Sailing to Byzantium’ is first published in 1928 as part of Yeast’s collection and it contains four stanzas. The poem ‘sailing to Byzantium’ is mainly about different between art and ordinary life. In the poem poet transform himself into work of art and he explores his thought and musing on how immortality art and the human spirit may converge. The poem ‘Sailing to Byzantium’in particular is its rich symbolism. Symbols are essentially words which are not merely connotative but also suggestive,…

Byzantium and the Muslims We have all heard about the Crusades, how two main religions went to war against each other in the name of God. But what were the Crusades really about? The Crusades was a time when two religions, Christianity and Islam, went to war against each other. This was a time when tension between the two religions as well as Judaism resulted in eight major Crusades between 1096 and 1291 and even a Children’s Crusade that ended in a catastrophe. According to Pope Urban II, he…

The Siege of Constantinople in 1453 represented the fall of a great empire and the expansion of a new one. This month long battle pitted the invading Ottoman Empire against the long standing Byzantium Empire that had held the city since its construction in the 4th century. This battle had enormous repercussions throughout the historical world and marked the beginning of the Ottoman Empire and the spread of the Islamic religion into Europe. Constantinople represented the capital of the…

In Byzantium Empire there was a lot of political changes sometimes for the better or sometimes of the worst. Mostly they effected medieval Europe and change how mid evil Europe functioned. Through different political ideologies and changing political strategies the empire became a powerful country on the hands of the western roman world in its collapse and instability. While the Byzantium Empire went through a period of stability and great power. One example of political change in the…

The decline of the great Roman Empire led to the occurrence of events that would alter the European world far more than any person could have possibly imagined. The most significant of these creations being the three heirs, Byzantium, the Islamic Empire, and Western Europe. All three have blaring similarities and differences that can be accounted for due to the decline of Rome. Byzantium found its stability from its previous life alongside the previous Great Empire of Rome, it took away Rome’s…