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The finest Urdu and English poetry from legendary and contemporary poets
3 poems available
William Butler Yeats
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 world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
Meaning
Apocalyptic vision of civilizational collapse.
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William Butler Yeats
That is no country for old men. The young
In one another's arms, birds in the trees,
Those dying generations - at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Meaning
A plea for transcendence over the mortality of nature.
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William Butler Yeats
I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses,
I have passed with a nod of the head
Or polite meaningless words,
Or have lingered awhile and said
Polite meaningless words,
Meaning
A meditation on the transformation of ordinary people through revolutionary sacrifice.
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