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I Talk to the Trees — then and now

December 12, 2008 - 2:52 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-12-15 10:03:59

Yeats is superb. Great quotes!

Didn’t he believe that the world went in cycles of 2,000 years and that the cycle of reasoning and rational thought (science?) inaugurated by the birth of Christ was coming to a close, to be succeeded by an age of superstition and magic? I think his poem “The Second Coming” speaks to this. “The blood-dimmed tide is loosed,…”