...interpretation of Shakespeare's vision of civil war, Hirsch offered the play as his own brand of mourning: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world."14 Repeatedly, anarchy is the consequence when the idealizing gestures of Henry V's eulogy...

...written early in the last century, speaks to me with a prescient insight of our current world situation: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon...is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity1 This poem presents the question before us: Can the centre hold...

...— Petrarch" But fatalism is just that: fatal. To throw up our hands is to die. — M. Scott Peck12 Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy...is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity — WB Yeats13 Up to now you have done what many people do;...

...and there is, among the most sensitive, a sense of loss evoked by WB Yeats in "The Second Coming": Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy...is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. A sense of futility, of social boredom, of meaninglessness...

...scenario described here, wrote the following about what would happen when the Restrainer was removed: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold Mere anarchy...is drowned The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. This speaks to the fact that when the ethos of a culture changes...

...still more fragmented environment, WB Yeats expresses the same thought in terms of spiritual deafness: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon...cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all...

...widely reprinted poem "The Second Coming," published in 1921: Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. The blood-dimmed...is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. This decline in self-assuredness and purpose has led to what...

...revolution, each with its own particular agenda, each believing its own individual will to be universal: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy...and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned. 63 In Robespierre's political cosmology, spirit was not tied to anything, had no substance, and had...

...mundane topics seemed to elicit these lines from Yeats: Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed...is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.14 At first it was literary magazines and opinion weeklies where...

...defined by the invasion and occupation of his home country, prophecies an apocalypse. The poem reads: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere...loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned."48 King's reference implies that the arrival of Columbus, and the shipwreck of the Santa Maria...