No, Yeats got this very wrong. I certainly do not lack conviction, nor do my comrades. I suspect Yeats was being a centrist in these lines.
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Even the poem itself gives the impression he’s commenting on a specific political mood and moment. I happen to think it describes ours, too. And he didn’t say that those with passionate intensity are all the worst. He said that the worst have passionate intensity.
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