FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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The Waste Land
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Tintern Abbey
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The Second Coming
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Prayer for My Daughter
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Detailed explanation-1: -You know that great line from Yeats “the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” It is from his poem The Second Coming, written in 1919 in the aftermath of the first World War.
Detailed explanation-2: -I guess what I meant is that you are better off doing nothing than doing something badly.
Detailed explanation-3: -And what kind of times will be wrought from a world where, “the worst are full of passionate intensity?” Yeats asks: “And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
Detailed explanation-4: -Second Coming, also called Second Advent or Parousia, in Christianity, the future return of Christ in glory, when it is understood that he will set up his kingdom, judge his enemies, and reward the faithful, living and dead.
Detailed explanation-5: -Spiritus Mundi is a Latin term that literally means, ‘’world spirit. ‘’ In Spiritus Mundi, there is, according to William Butler Yeats, ‘’a universal memory and a ‘muse’ of sorts that provides inspiration to the poet or writer.