"Right now at a time when there are more hungry people in the world than ever before, there is less food aid than we have seen in living memory and this is extremely alarming to the World Food Program because we are the ones on the front lines trying to help the most hungry out of the one billion people who are going to bed every night without enough food."

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

There's a way in which Yeats's poetry of this period goes on resonating in the world we're living in.

叶芝这一时段的诗歌,有一个反应现实生活的方法。

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Then this simply isn't a world worth living in.

那活在这世上根本就不值得了。

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