The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.