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Which is presumably taken from Yeats' "Second Coming" (Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world". https://www.poetryfoun
by ranko 5y ago
Which 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.