"The Second Coming" and "A Vision"

#1 of 6 marked pages on the trail A Brief Introduction to Poetry by akarra
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What makes poetry work: lines that stick in your memory ("the best lack all conviction, while the worst / are full of passionate intensity").

What makes this powerful poem last is a bit more subtle. We wonder about "the falcon cannot hear the falconer." The falcon was set on its course by the falconer. Are things falling apart because of the very way they were set in motion?
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