'Things fall apart': the apocalyptic appeal of WB Yeats's The Second Coming - The Guardian theguardian.com · Originally posted on Pinboard

In an age of shocking reversals, Yeats’s theory of historical cycles – “day & night, night & day for ever,” as he once put it – rings true. The only consolation the poem offers is the knowledge that, for one reason or another, every generation has felt the same apocalyptic shudder that Yeats did 100 years ago.