greykit.poetry — #art

• 1928 [w-b-yeats] Sailing to Byzantium
  The Tower

  Yeats leaves the country of the young and sensual — dying generations caught in their music — and sails to the holy city of Byzantium, asking its gold-mosaic sages to gather him out of nature into the artifice of eternity, a hammered golden bird singing of what is past, or passing, or to come.

  #lyric#aging#art#eternity#1920s
• 1820 [john-keats] Ode on a Grecian Urn
  Poems Published in 1820

  Meditating on the frozen figures of an ancient urn, Keats finds that unheard melodies surpass the heard, and that the urn's last lesson to man is that beauty and truth are one.

  #ode#art#beauty#time#1820s