Friday, February 17, 2012

12-02-17 Yeats' 1920 poem, "The Second Coming" // 1920 Yeats poema, "The Second Coming" // 叶芝的1920首诗,“第二” // 1920 стихотворения Йейтса "Второе пришествие"

Yeats' 1920 poem, "The Second Coming"

joseph zernik
12:27 AM (0 minutes ago)
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Emacs!
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.