The Second Coming
Written after the Great War and amid the Irish revolution, the poem opens on a falcon that can no longer hear the falconer and a world whose center will not hold. It turns to a vision of some rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem to be born. Twenty-two lines that gave the twentieth century most of its titles for catastrophe.
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- alludes to ↑ The Book of Revelation
- ↓ Things Fall Apart
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