Which line from William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming” most plainly contains apocalyptic imagery?
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“The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity.”
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity.”
“A shape with lion body and the head of a man,/A gaze blank and pitiless…”
“A shape with lion body and the head of a man,/A gaze blank and pitiless…”
“Surely some revelation is at hand;/Surely the Second Coming is at hand.”
“Surely some revelation is at hand;/Surely the Second Coming is at hand.”
“…while all about it/Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.”
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“…while all about it/Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.”
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