The Second Coming
W. B. Yeats’s apocalyptic vision of a civilization spinning out of control — “things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.” Full poem, summary, and analysis.
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W. B. Yeats’s apocalyptic vision of a civilization spinning out of control — “things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.” Full poem, summary, and analysis.
Robert Frost’s Mending Wall turns a yearly spring chore into an unresolved argument about boundaries and tradition, with a close reading of its irony, its blank verse, and the famous line “Good fences make good neighbors.”