Esej
https://doi.org/10.3325/cmj.2020.61.184
No country for old men: five prevalent stereotypes affecting the life of the elderly
Stjepan Orešković
orcid.org/0000-0002-9315-875X
; Andrija Štampar School of Public Health, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
Sažetak
“That is no country for old men” is the first line of William
Butler Yeats’ poem “Sailing to Byzantium” (1). Although the
poem was written in 1928, the line became famous only
in 2007, when the Coen brothers used it as a title of their
film. The poem is a passionate expression of grief for the
vanished country of the young. Even more, it is a lament
on the carelessness and disrespect of adolescents for the
wisdom of the past. In his book A Vision, Yeats says: “I think
that in early Byzantium, maybe never before or since in re-
corded history, religious, aesthetic, and practical life (was)
one, that architect and artificers ... spoke to the multitude
and the few alike.”
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253170
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Datum izdavanja:
14.6.2020.
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