Fairly famous lines from W.B. Yeats’ The Second Coming<\/i>. He was talking about apocalypse, the end of the world. The lines can be used to convey a lot more than that. They fit for anything that ends badly. Taken as they are outside of the poem, there are a couple of things I tend to take with them.<\/p>\n
In particular the line “things fall apart”. It’s a flat statement. Things. Fall. Apart. Full stop, end of story. It’s also both a prediction and destiny. Depending on what actually happens, I read it as; things have<\/b> fallen apart, it was always going to happen, they just do. Or I can read it as; things will<\/b> fall apart, it will always happen, they just do. I don’t know why, I just take it like that.<\/p>\n
The other thing is a sense of wistfulness. When I hear the words in my mind or the words spring to mind, there is always a wistful sense about them. As if the words or saying yes things have fallen apart and its a shame. It would have been better if they didn’t.<\/p>\n
Maybe it is just me, but I have my own interpretations of the words and the meaning and yes at the end of the day, “things fall apart, the centre cannot hold”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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