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Yeats' 1920 poem, "The Second Coming"

joseph zernik	12:27 AM (0 minutes ago)
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Yeats photographed in 1923

Yeats' 1920 poem, "The Second Coming" contains some of literature's most potent images of the twentieth century.

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.