The Concept of Death and Afterlife in W.B.Yeats Byzantium and Sailing

I. INTRODUCTION every(prenominal) soulfulness shall have a taste of death. That brings us to a foreland of what death really is. Generally speaking, the basic concept of the process so called death is build up on the facts that this process starts when the heart closure its work to pump the blood which leads to the brain damage and the failure of the complete systems of clement consistence. When all the system or the functions of human organs are out of work, the body itself becomes lifeless or dead.Furthermore, according to the religious points of view, cosmos dead, as we mention above does not mean that the travel of human soul has come to an end. On the contrary once the soul go away the body, it will transform into another living form and will come with until the judgment day arrives.?When all sequence comes to an end, time comes to an end, and the soul puts on the rhythmic or spiritual or luminous body and contemplates all the events of its memory and every possible impulse in an eternal self-command of itself in one single moment. That condition is alone animate, all the loosening is phantasy, and from thence came all the passions, and some have held, the very heat of the body?.(Norman, A. Jaffares. 1984, p.333)Apart from religious definition of death above, in fact Yeats is incomplete orthodoxy religious nor orthodoxy scientific. He has his own science, which is an occult one, and his own religion or sophisticated lower mythology and in prose he sometimes reconciles them at the aim of mystic. His tolerance in religions resulted in inconsistent and ambiguous attitude as reflected in his Byzantium and Sailing to Byzantium.II. RELIGIOUS DOCTRINES INVOLVED2.1 Christian DoctrineOn the matter of death, according to Christian belief of man, God created hu... ... go through relieving its earthly life and will be purified in purgatory. All the nefariousness deeds in human soul will be cleanse so that the soul becomes faithful and pure again and after that the soul will be united with the body again and he rebirth to lead on earthly life. All the evil deeds and good deeds do in the previous life will done in the previous life will determine the condition of the bequest life, be it good or bad.The above concept of Yeats no doubt is idealized by him from mixing up the two doctrines Christian and Hinduism. In fact there is no incarnation in Christian doctrine of man. When a man dies he will go for spiritual journey to heaven (of course after cleansing in purgatory) as suggested by the title Sailing to Byzantium. But W. B. Yeats is so impressed and influenced by Hinduism and whitethorn be his love for earthly life so he wants to be incarnated.