Speaking at Lord Mayor’s banquet tonight Sunak quoted Yeats: “The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere, the ceremony of innocence is drowned…”
Poets on here will know this is The Second Coming, which also includes the line: “Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold.” 👀
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@JessicaFKeyes
And the line about the best lacking all conviction, the worst being full of passionate intensity.
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@EveMoran15
He did actually quote that bit too - in reference to Hamas and Putin - but I couldn’t fit it all in the tweet!
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@JessicaFKeyes
“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,/Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?” is at least as dreadfully apposite.
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@JessicaFKeyes
Did slouching Sunak stumble on Yeats because he was trying to find “Vision”?
By the way, fantastic 2020 piece here from
@Dorianlynskey
on the ceaseless plundering of “The Second Coming”:
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