The Names
The Names
This poem, by Poet Laureate of the United States Billy Collins, was read during a special session of the U.S. Congress held in New York on Friday, September 6, 2002.
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My City Of Ruins - Bruce Springsteen
From The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats, 1921
Yeats was attracted to the spiritual and occult world and fashioned for himself an elaborate mythology to explain human experience. "The Second Coming," written after the catastrophe of World War I and with communism and fascism rising, is a compelling glimpse of an inhuman world about to be born. Yeats believed that history in part moved in two thousand-year cycles. The Christian era, which followed that of the ancient world, was about to give way to an ominous period represented by the rough, pitiless beast in the poem.