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Love the title, very apt. It's also the name of a famous Nigerian novel.
by auggierose 5y ago
Love the title, very apt. It's also the name of a famous Nigerian novel.
- ranko 5y agoWhich is presumably taken from Yeats' "Second Coming" (Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world". https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-comi...
- KarlKemp 5y agoBased on the n=1 study that is myself, I would call it "the favourite poem of people who don't like poetry", which is either high praise or the opposite. Those lines also speak to our times.
- zabzonk 5y agoI raise you: Fern Hill. Dylan Thomas. https://poets.org/poem/fern-hill https://poets.org/poem/fern-hill
- grasshopperpurp 5y agoI love poetry but strongly dislike most poems, and I've always really liked The Second Coming. So, maybe you do like poetry but just haven't found many poems that work for you. Back in like 2005, I got a collection of Yeats' poems. It's a big collection and smells like the previous owner read it while smoking inside. It's been a while since I picked it up, and while there are some other poems I like, very few approach the quality of The Second Coming.
- Zizizizz 5y agoAnd album by The Roots
- auggierose 5y agoNow that you say it, of course! Actually went to a Roots concert once, must have been about 15 years ago :-) "Roots" "Roots" "Roots"
- wayoutthere 5y agoAn all time classic. That album is still pure fire.
- msum 5y agoAnd a Pema Chodron book.