Comment on W.B. Yeats’ “Sailing to Byzantium” and “Byzantium” with reference to the essay of Cleanth Brooks’ “The Language of Paradox”

W.B. Yeats is a well known poet dealing with the ideological aspects of life through his poems. “Sailing to Byzantium” and “Byzantium” poems are considered his masterpieces. Here is an attempt to find out how the theory of the modern critic Cleanth Brooks presented in his essay “Language of Paradox” can be applied to these to poems. The real charm and the meaning may be found out by finding out the hidden paradox in the poems.