Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… I found that terrifying when I first read it in high school. Seeing it reduced to a literary trope isn’t all bad. Nevertheless, “the centre” really wasn’t holding when Yeats composed the poem in 1919...
Things Fall Apart Writers who want to describe sweeping global change often quote the W.B. Yeats poem,The Second Coming. You’ve probably seen its famous opening: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer. Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere an...
The title of the novel, Things Fall Apart, is an allusion to W.B. Yeats's poem "The Second Coming." The poem begins: "Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; / Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the wo...
The Second Coming William Butler Yeats. Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot. “Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy i...
and addressed the nation about the Challenger instead. Widely regarded as one of the best speeches of his presidency, the 650-word address ended with a moving quote from the poem “High Flight,” by the American pilot ...
When you get an idea and you fall in love with it there's not a whole lot of choice. You're going down a street and you meet this girl and you know it doesn't have to make any sense. Bingo! You're in love. — David Lynch 2 I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. ...
where other or self cannot separate; Because they are drawn back to their deep-true oneness, yet still are, still are unique as snowflakes, forms of the same unfolding infolding manifold but not apart or alone, any/ever more. Share this: ...
This is not a poem it is a tree Paula Green from ‘The Venetian Blind Poems’ forthcoming The Cuba Press, 2025 2024 has been one of the most challenging years of my life. Yet within challenge and darkness, I find joy and light. Poetry Shelf has held on, is holding on, by a thin ...
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Banks will fail because too large a share of debts cannot be repaid with interest. Part of the problem will be that while wages will rise, the prices of goods and services will rise even faster, making goods unaffordable. Another part of the problem is that service economies, such as those...