Yeats' 1920 poem, "The Second Coming"
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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.
