Poems of W.B. Yeats: The Rose

What, if we presage man’s future, is the ultimate destiny of human civilization?

Meru by William Butler Yeats

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The poem indicates that if man does not change his ways of greed and hubris, the world will be cast into darkness. The natural world will unleash its fury on mankind.

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