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Re:Things Fall Apart by auggierose on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @03:06AM (#28521293)
Love the title, very apt. It's also the name of a famous Nigerian novel.
Re:Things Fall Apart by ranko on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @03:40AM (#28521540)
Which is presumably taken from Yeats' "Second Coming" (Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world".

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-comi...

Re:Things Fall Apart by KarlKemp on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:56AM (#28522025)
Based on the n=1 study that is myself, I would call it "the favourite poem of people who don't like poetry", which is either high praise or the opposite.

Those lines also speak to our times.

Re:Things Fall Apart by grasshopperpurp on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @06:47AM (#28522752)
I love poetry but strongly dislike most poems, and I've always really liked The Second Coming. So, maybe you do like poetry but just haven't found many poems that work for you.

Back in like 2005, I got a collection of Yeats' poems. It's a big collection and smells like the previous owner read it while smoking inside. It's been a while since I picked it up, and while there are some other poems I like, very few approach the quality of The Second Coming.

Re:Things Fall Apart by zabzonk on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:53AM (#28522400)
I raise you: Fern Hill. Dylan Thomas.

https://poets.org/poem/fern-hill

Re:Things Fall Apart by Zizizizz on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @06:03AM (#28522462)
And album by The Roots
Re:Things Fall Apart by auggierose on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @06:17AM (#28522565)
Now that you say it, of course! Actually went to a Roots concert once, must have been about 15 years ago :-) "Roots" "Roots" "Roots"
Re:Things Fall Apart by wayoutthere on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @06:30AM (#28522653)
An all time classic. That album is still pure fire.
Re:Things Fall Apart by msum on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @10:25PM (#28534486)
And a Pema Chodron book.