There are many different things that can have two meanings in life. Whether it's a certain look someone gives you, it can mean something special. Or even in a literary way, for example, in the novel series The Chronicles of Narnia, the lion Aslan symbolizes God! In the Chronicles of Narnia series, Aslan performs many different acts that demonstrate that he is symbolized as God. For example, in the most popular book of the series, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Aslan breathes the breath of life onto many creatures that he brings them back to life and returns them to normal after the witch turns them to stone. Relatedly, William Butler Yeats' works also include many different symbols. In William Butler Yeats's poems, Sailing to Byzantium, The Second Coming, The Wild Swans at Coole, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, and When You are Old, there are symbols that have special meanings. In Yeats' Byzantium, there is the symbol of the boat and/or navigation. This poem is about aging. The opening line, “That is no country for old men” (page 1147 line 1) even states that the speaker, an old man, is leaving the country because he is now too old. In lines 15-16, the speaker states, “And therefore I sailed the seas, and came to the holy city of Byzantium.” This basically means that the speaker has lived, and is now old, and will die and go to a better place. Even though we think Yeats is talking about Heaven, but he believed in reincarnation, so the speaker would be reincarnated into something better. In Yeats's poem Coming, Yeats uses a falcon and a falconer as a symbol. The whole poem is about how the world is changing. According to Yeats's philosophy, the world goes through periods of 2000 years with...... middle of paper ......g by the fire, and thinks about him and their past together, and how she didn't accept him. In conclusion, Yeats obviously uses symbols throughout his lyrics! He is an absolute animal when it comes to using symbolism in his poems. First, Yeats uses the boat, or sailing, to symbolize death in his poem Byzantium. Secondly, the falcon and the falconer are used in Coming to represent the world losing touch with faith. Third, in Swans, swans are symbolic of younger experiences, which will one day be gone and you will no longer be able to remember. Next, in Innisfree, the place Innisfree is a symbol of peace, because it is basically the speaker's happy place, and it is perfect and peaceful. Finally, Yeats uses the book in Old to represent the past, when the woman sits with the book and dreams. In the end, Yeats is the winner of the greatest poet who uses symbols!