William Butler Yeats, one of the foremost figures of 20th ... with “Easter 1916,” “The Second Coming” and “A Prayer for My Daughter” as well as The Tower (1928) containing “Sailing ...
What can an individual do when there’s so little hope while facing a chaotic four years ahead? Stand up and be heard.
Perpetual outrage, no matter how justified it may seem, is not a sustainable political strategy. Those who disagree with ...
At the root of Trumpism's rapid ascendance, and the pitiful resistance to it, is a profound failure of imagination ...
A little over 100 years ago, in the disillusioned aftermath of The Great War (now known as World War I), the Irish poet William Butler Yeats ... “The Second Coming,” where he envisions ...
He ends by quoting William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming,” a poem popular on the right, and wrote: Wicker nailed it when he quoted Yeats to describe the emergence of Trump. But now ...