Change Is Changelessness: An Analysis Of William Butler Yeats

Change is Changelessness
“An Analysis of William Butler Yeats”

Life is full of change, it is the natural order of things, without change life would be at a standstill, without cause, just an empty world. Change is how new ideas arise, how things become better or worse, without it we wouldn’t be here on this earth. In opposition, there is also a world of changelessness, it is the only thing that remains constant in our lives, there is always change and that gives us the allusion of changelessness. Things are moving so fast that they seem to be standing still as a car flying down the road at sixty-five miles an hour, without the background we wouldn’t be able to tell of the movement. Each of these famous poems by Yeats express this view of the world in their own different stories His first being, “When You Are Old” a poem to a lost lover, in his past that he want to speak to

An old man talks about how he wants his life to end, how the great circle finally comes to a close, not in a new life, but a continuation of something else as an art piece, that could live forever. “But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make of hammered gold and gold enameling to keep a drowsy Emperor awake; or set upon a golden bough to sing to lords and ladies of Byzantium of what is past, or passing, or to come.” (Page 1148 Lines 27-32). He dislikes the idea of coming back to life because then you must then go all the way back through life and deal with the change and inconsistency. He would like to be put back into the world as a piece of art, whereas there is no stress or life changing events all you get to do is live a changeless life, which is forever, but you are able to stay and watch as others’ lives come and go, the ultimate