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William Butler Yeats

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Irish poet whose apocalyptic poem "The Second Coming" is celebrated for its imagery of civilization's collapse and the loss of center

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The Second ComingRalph Waldo Emerson
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"Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; / Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats is one of my favorite poems of all time · u/floatingmicroplastic · ↑33 · 2022-01-15
"Nobody has done anything cool for years and has never heard of Emerson or Yeats or whatever"
Go on adventures, read cool books they said · u/AlaskaExplorationGeo · ↑44 · 2024-04-08
"The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats is one of my favorite poems of all time"
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats is one of my favorite poems of all time · u/floatingmicroplastic · ↑33 · 2022-01-15
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