William Butler Yeats Foresees Sean Hannity

[BurtWorm]

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh102303.shtml

LACKING CONVICTION: Have we been referring to Yeats? a reader asks. Actually, we had Chinua Achebe’s novel, Things Fall Apart, in mind. But in “The Second Coming,” Yeats described what happens when “hings fall apart; the center cannot hold.” “The best lack all conviction,” he complained, “while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” No, he’d never heard Sean Hannity, but he seemed to know Sean would be here.

[On the Road]

1. Wait -- There's More

somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all around it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

Actually, to make that refer to SH is giving him a little too much credit.

[Malva Zebrina]

2. the last two lines:

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

[geniph]

3. That's been my sig line for some time

That's my favorite piece of poetry in the world.