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¶ … Strength in Themes of Modernist Poetry Things fall apart, the center cannot hold," wrote Yeats of the modern, human condition. Yeats later poetic vision highlights a central notion in much of modern poetic philosophy, namely that the old ideological and religious structures have begun to unravel in modern life. What ideologies that once held up the human form and human social norms are no more, in the face of modern war and destruction. The title of this poem "The Second Coming" refers to the fact that the awaited solution to the crisis, that of the second coming of the Messiah, seems no where to be found, and while human beings wait for meaning, it seems to be no where, and all human strength...

Ezra Pound saw as the solution to the modern absence of meaning in life, and the searching for a new poetic form that could express the crisis of modern life in the past and the forms of the Far East. While Yeats ultimately rejected the folkloric Irish poetry with which he began his career, Pound returned again and again to other, older poetic traditions such in the Asiatic tradition. The speaker of his poem "Fan-Piece, For Her Imperial Lord" is philosophical when the center of her world, her lover, rejects her: "O…

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Dickinson, Emily. "I felt a funeral in my brain." http://swc2.hccs.cc.tx.us/htmls/rowhtml/dickinson/emily02.htm. On April 19, 2004

Pound, Ezra. "Fan Piece, for her Imperial Lord." Retrieved at http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/pound01.html. On April 19, 2004.

Yeats, W.B. "The Second Coming." Retrieved at http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?prmID=1369on April 19, 2004.
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