...did not foresee, not having the courage of my own thought : the growing murderousness of the world : Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon...is drowned ; The best lack all conviction while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. XXII The Huxley, Tyndall, Carolus Duran, Bastien- Lepage coven...

...did not foresee, not having the courage of my own thought : the growing murderousness of the world. Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon...is drowned; The best lack all conviction while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. XXIII If abstraction had reached, or all but reached its climax,...

...situation has worsened in the modern age. WB Yeats has depicted the situation in the following words: "Things fall apart: the centre cannot hold, Mere anarchy...is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Therefore, we certainly need right type of men, who can understand...

...taken, it is the words of a modern prophet, the poet WB Yeats, that come more to mind: Things tall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed...is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. It is this "passionate intensity" that poses the greatest danger...

...called up a famous line from William Butler Yeats 's apocalyptic poem of 1924, "The Second Coming": Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy...and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned. Behind Solomon's paean to order looms the shadow of an atrociously disorderly, chaotic century. At...

...destruction of World War I, and the opening stanza of the poem describes a world that has lost its innocence: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy...and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned . . . Within this terrible new world, the narrator speaks of a second coming, although rather than...

...another of her poetic precursors in her refutation of Yeats's dire predictions in "The Second Coming": "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere...loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned."9 In Clifton's writings, her poems as well as her memoir, the blood-dimmed tide — of loss,...

...with its plethora of religious and apocalyptic resonances: Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed...ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all convictions, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.3 Terror in the Mind of God Paradoxically,...

...in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer, Things fall apart; the centre cannot bold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed...The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best— Mooner snatched the book back, though Florida made a cat's sound of disappointment. "Poetry," Mooner...

...progetto ambizioso non era nientemeno che un monumento a Dio. Capitolo 14 Natura senza Dio? Thingsfall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed...blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony ofinnocence is drowned* William Butler Yeats, II secondo avvento Non appena Owen presentò la sua proposta...