Yeats, wrote ruefully about his waning poetic powers in “The Circus Animal’s Desertion,” published in The Atlantic in January 1939, the month of his death at age 73. In this apocalyptic depiction of ...

Phenomenon of death adds poetry and profundity to the symphony of life. Imagine a garden without autumn, where flowers never fade, fruits never ripen, and leaves never fall - a static, lifeless ...