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Sailing to Byzantium was my favorite too. I wish we would've had time to talk about it in class :( It made me dread growing old and becoming a cat lady. According to Yeats, the world believes that the young get to live life to the fullest while the elderly sit back and watch, longing to be youthful again. The thought of being "trapped inside a decaying body" is pretty depressing. No wonder the speaker wanted to leave a city filled with young people who reminded him everyday of what he could never be again!
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