Good poetry can be prophecy. A poet can capture what he does not know and foretell the future better then any pundit. One good example of poetry as prophecy would be William Butler Yeats’ famous poem “THE SECOND COMING.” When you think about when this poem was written and what happened in the two decades after it was written, it is hard to escape the feeling that you are reading a scarily accurate work of prophecy.

The sad part is that William Yeats welcomed the coming of the beast.

I have had occasion to think about this poem along with King Lear and the current intergenerational problems that I perceive to be coming.