Thursday, May 10, 2012

Yeats is an amazing poet and is able to get people to jump on two sides of the same poem and both have valid arguments.  Durring the class discussion on "The Second Coming."  Zac took the position of it having no religious ties and I myself kept to my convictions and believed he was discussing about Jesus's second coming to our earth.  Only a great poet is able to have a vague enough language that can lend itself to two different interpretations.  This skill amazes me in the fact is most poetry I read it leads to one conclusion, but Yeats has that uncanny ability to get two legitamate opposing ideas out of the same text.

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