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The Second Coming

W.B. Yeats

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1920
Pages
Pages 1

A poet looks at a world spinning out of control after a war and sees an old order ending, and something new and monstrous shuffling in to replace it.

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
The Second Coming, W.B. Yeats

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