#poetry (5 links)
More general than the title suggests.
- 'Things fall apart': the apocalyptic appeal of WB Yeats's The Second Coming - The Guardian theguardian.com
In an age of shocking reversals, Yeats’s theory of historical cycles – “day & night, night & day for ever,” as he once put it – rings true. The only consolation the poem offers is the knowledge that, for one reason or another, every generation has felt the same apocalyptic shudder that Yeats did 100 years ago.
- Forgiven by A.A. Milne allpoetry.com
I found a little beetle; so that Beetle was his name, And I called him Alexander and he answered just the same.
- You like my poems? So pay for them | News | Guardian Unlimited Books books.guardian.co.uk
For those of us who make a little bit of money from royalties and permission fees [..] it's different. Free publicity has no value if all that happens is that even more people download your poems from the internet without paying for them.