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4. This is a truly great, and truly prophetic, poem...

Reply to MineralMan (Original post)

Mon Dec 26, 2016, 11:00 AM

Dec 2016

...Yeats was the 20th century Shakespeare, in my opinion...he wrote this poem at the end of World War One, in response to that idiot slaughter, the Irish civil war, and the beginnings of Bolshevism...later, he acknowledged that it also prophesied the rise of Fascism. Its relevance continues unabated, alas...

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Was William Butler Yeats a Prophet? Perhaps so... [View all] MineralMan Dec 2016 OP

This empty vessel was filled with hate. yallerdawg Dec 2016 #1

This poem, and especially the last two lines, has been going around in my head for the last month. lutherj Dec 2016 #2

I've pay my repects to Yeats, @ Drumcliff Historic NY Dec 2016 #3

This is a truly great, and truly prophetic, poem... First Speaker Dec 2016 #4

A prophet, a poet, a visionary, a mystic.... One of the best of all time Hekate Dec 2016 #5

My preferred prophet is Seuss tavernier Dec 2016 #6

Maybe, but WISE, surely; elleng Dec 2016 #7