Yeats’s “Second Coming” pretty much describes the current GOP, with Trump auditioning to be the rough beast.
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The Second Coming of Trumpism?
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Dreaming of Travel during Covid
A very smart Covid poem circulating on social media at the moment references 11 poems, all about longing to travel.
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Reading My Way to Adulthood
As an adolescent, I used fantasy in an attempt to hold on to my childhood innocence and hated “Catcher in the Rye.” Little did I realize that Salinger’s novel describes my struggle.
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A Divine Stairway of Sharp Angles
Levertov uses to story of Jacob’s Ladder to describe the miracle of poetry.
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Political Commentary’s Most Cited Poem
The Washington Post’s E. J. Dionne has called Yeats’s “The Second Coming” the most cited poem in political commentary. Yeats may set up a false dichotomy between “passionate intensity” and “lack of conviction,” however.