Plato and the Second Coming

Although The Second Coming by Yeats is an emotionally moving and stimulating piece, but I think that it was a complete waste of time. That precious time that we have so little of could have been used to accomplish much more meaningful tasks that would have a much greater and more important impact on the world. Reading this poem I was emotionally drawn in, but that is not what I consider beautiful. Beautiful is the ideal form of that one object, this poem did not accomplish this. Also, writing down anything that isn't philosophy or lessons, should not have been written at all. We need to be focusing ourselves on teaching the younger generations so that they may become a microscopic step closer to the ideal. Creating a poem such as this one is worthless to me because it is being used as entertainment and as a tool to engage a person, but not in a practical way. If Yeats had spent more time applying his intelligence and creativity to more applicable art, than he would be more respectable and renowned.