The tower

"The Tower" by W. B. Yeats is a set of poems from the beginning of the 1900s, where Yeats examines growing old, what is beautiful, and figuring out who you are as a person and as an artist. Yeats's poems look at time moving forward and how complicated people are, mixing his own thoughts with the culture and history around him. Key poems like "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Meditations in Time of Civil War" show Yeats dealing with getting older and wanting his art and spirituality to be something bigger. Using strong images and old stories, he makes the reader feel both nostalgic and like they are trying to find something important. The poetry brings attention to how the body weakens with age compared to how strong creative thinking can be, making readers consider how life and death, memories and forgetting, all work together. "The Tower" is a collection that is philosophical and emotional, looking closely at life, art, and the search for what lasts.