English, 28.10.2019 21:31, Aldcperformer

Plz in "the second coming" by w. b. yeats, the speaker asserts that the best people "lack all conviction," while the worst are "full of passionate intensity." how does this statement apply to the speakers in "an irish airman foresees his death" and "the love song of j. alfred prufrock"? what characteristics of the modern world make it difficult, if not impossible, to be heroic in the traditional sense?

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