Yeats and the Hillary Clinton phenomenon

[anamnua]

'All changed, changed utterly,
a terrible beauty is born'
Easter 1916

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

1. You're kidding? Yeats is context and you provide none.

I was looking forward to at least one verse of prose and, well,

:mad:

[Hope08]

2. I prefer the following verse ...

"That woman's days were spent
In ignorant good will,
Her nights in argument
Until her voice grew shrill."

[QC]

3. It's almost as if Yeats had a vision of the Hope 'n Change Brigade!

the worst are full of passionate intensity

[Catherina]

4. Here's the Yeats verse for Hillary

I rename this excerpt


OBLITERATION

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,

Is moving its slow thighs, while all around it

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again; but now I know

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

5. Yeats and a mushroom cloud.