Levertov uses to story of Jacob’s Ladder to describe the miracle of poetry.
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Tag Archives: W. B. Yeats
A Divine Stairway of Sharp Angles
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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.