Exactly one hundred years ago this month, at a time of political polarization and the Spanish Flu pandemic, William Butler Yeats published “The Second Coming,” a poem premised on the cycles of history that resonates today with striking immediacy.
Things fall apart, the center cannot hold, the worst are full of passionate intensity... These and other enduring lines from “The Second Coming” are now part of our collective vocabulary.
In Episode 15, “The Second Coming Turns 100," we look at the historical context in which Yeats conceived and published the poem with special guest, prize-winning documentary filmmaker Briona Nic Dhiarmada, Professor of Film and Irish Studies at Notre Dame University.
Find out more about the poem, its birthplace, and remarkable composer, Nobel Prize-winning poet, W.B. Yeats, in Episode 15, “The Second Coming Turns 100," Part 2.
Original music composed and created by Ryan Adair Rooney.
For show notes and transcript, please visit our website: www.fluentknowledge.com/shows/the-purple-principle/the-centennial-of-w-b-yeats-the-second-coming-part-2
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