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"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats
An animated interpretation of William Butler Yeats's poem "The Second Coming"
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For an analysis of this poem, watch this video: http://bit.ly/TEDEdYeatsAnalysis
This animation is part of our series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest feelings. Check out the full series here: http://bit.ly/TEDEdTheresAPoemForThat
Poem by William Butler Yeats, directed by Eoin Duffy.
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published: 02 Feb 2019
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4. William Butler Yeats
Modern Poetry (ENGL 310) with Langdon Hammer
The early poetry of William Butler Yeats is read and interpreted with particular attention paid to Yeats's ambitions as a specifically Irish poet. Yeats's commitment to a poetry of symbol is explored in "The Song of the Wandering Aengus," a fable of poetic vocation. "A Coat," composed at the end of Yeats's struggle to bring about an Irish national theater, shows the poet reconceiving his style and in search of a new audience. "The Fisherman" is read as a revision of "The Song of the Wandering Aengus" which reflects this new set of concerns.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction: William Butler Yeats
06:28 - Chapter 2. W. B. Yeats and King Goll
14:41 - Chapter 3. W. B. Yeats Poem: "The Song of the Wandering Aengus"
27:01 - Chapter 4. W. B. Yeats Poe...
published: 06 Dec 2012
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Sailing to Byzantium - W. B. Yeats (Powerful Life Poetry)
Read by Doug Barron
Music by Hammock
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William Butler Yeats was a Nobel Prize winning Irish writer, widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.
"Sailing to Byzantium" is Yeats' definitive statement about the agony of old age and the imaginative and spiritual work required to remain a healthy individual even when the heart is "fastened to a dying animal" (the body).
Yeats's solution is to leave the country of the young and travel to Byzantium, where the sages in the city's famous gold mosaics could become the "singing-masters" of his soul. He hopes the sages will appear in fire and take him away from his body into an existence outside time, where, like a great work of art, he could exist in "the artifice of eternity."
In the final stanza of the poem, he declare...
published: 16 May 2020
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W. B. Yeats documentary
William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish literary establishment who helped to found the Abbey Theatre. In his later years he served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.
W. B. Yeats documentary
2005
Thumbnail by Mary Bassett
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/william-butler-yeats-literary-legend-by-mary-bassett-mary-bassett.html?product=framed-print
published: 06 Oct 2022
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When You Are Old - W. B. Yeats read by Cillian Murphy | Powerful Life Poetry
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. - Plato
When You Are Old by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
#poetry #love
published: 27 Jul 2022
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William Butler Yeats Quotes To Give You A Different Perspective Of Life | Life Changing Quotes
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others.
#WilliamButlerYeatsQuotes #WilliamButlerYeats #SimplyMotivation
published: 20 Jan 2022
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Liam Neeson reads WB Yeats' Easter 1916 | RTÉ
Liam Neeson reads WB Yeats' Easter 1916 | RTÉ
See more at: http://www.rte.ie/player
published: 18 Mar 2016
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Dominic West reads "The Second Coming" by WB Yeats | A Fanatic Heart: Geldof on Yeats, RTE One
See more at: http://www.rte.ie/player
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world..."
Dominic West reads "The Second Coming" by WB Yeats.
"A Fanatic Heart: Geldof on Yeats" concludes Thursday 31st March, 10.15, RTE One
published: 30 Mar 2016
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W.B Yeats' best poems
9 of the best poems by Irish poet W.B. Yeats.
William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish literary establishment who helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.
Subscribe here for more videos - https://tinyurl.com/2p9hjxbs
This channel aims to upload high quality videos relating to all kinds of literature (Poetry, novels, etc.)
1. When You Are Old
Music - Sad Reflection and Grief Piano by MusicLFiles
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8272-sad-reflection-and-grief-piano
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license...
published: 03 Feb 2022
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🔵 The Second Coming Poem by William Butler Yeats Summary Analysis Second Coming William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming Poem by William Butler Yeats Summary Analysis Second Coming William Butler Yeats
Written in 1919
by W.B.Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel...
published: 08 Jul 2022
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"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats
An animated interpretation of William Butler Yeats's poem "The Second Coming"
--
For an analysis of this poem, watch this video: http://bit.ly/TEDEdYeatsAnaly...
An animated interpretation of William Butler Yeats's poem "The Second Coming"
--
For an analysis of this poem, watch this video: http://bit.ly/TEDEdYeatsAnalysis
This animation is part of our series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest feelings. Check out the full series here: http://bit.ly/TEDEdTheresAPoemForThat
Poem by William Butler Yeats, directed by Eoin Duffy.
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An animated interpretation of William Butler Yeats's poem "The Second Coming"
--
For an analysis of this poem, watch this video: http://bit.ly/TEDEdYeatsAnalysis
This animation is part of our series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest feelings. Check out the full series here: http://bit.ly/TEDEdTheresAPoemForThat
Poem by William Butler Yeats, directed by Eoin Duffy.
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- published: 02 Feb 2019
- views: 411661
45:43
4. William Butler Yeats
Modern Poetry (ENGL 310) with Langdon Hammer
The early poetry of William Butler Yeats is read and interpreted with particular attention paid to Yeats's ambitio...
Modern Poetry (ENGL 310) with Langdon Hammer
The early poetry of William Butler Yeats is read and interpreted with particular attention paid to Yeats's ambitions as a specifically Irish poet. Yeats's commitment to a poetry of symbol is explored in "The Song of the Wandering Aengus," a fable of poetic vocation. "A Coat," composed at the end of Yeats's struggle to bring about an Irish national theater, shows the poet reconceiving his style and in search of a new audience. "The Fisherman" is read as a revision of "The Song of the Wandering Aengus" which reflects this new set of concerns.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction: William Butler Yeats
06:28 - Chapter 2. W. B. Yeats and King Goll
14:41 - Chapter 3. W. B. Yeats Poem: "The Song of the Wandering Aengus"
27:01 - Chapter 4. W. B. Yeats Poem: "A Coat"
32:45 - Chapter 5. W. B. Yeats Poem: "The Fisherman"
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://oyc.yale.edu
This course was recorded in Spring 2007.
https://wn.com/4._William_Butler_Yeats
Modern Poetry (ENGL 310) with Langdon Hammer
The early poetry of William Butler Yeats is read and interpreted with particular attention paid to Yeats's ambitions as a specifically Irish poet. Yeats's commitment to a poetry of symbol is explored in "The Song of the Wandering Aengus," a fable of poetic vocation. "A Coat," composed at the end of Yeats's struggle to bring about an Irish national theater, shows the poet reconceiving his style and in search of a new audience. "The Fisherman" is read as a revision of "The Song of the Wandering Aengus" which reflects this new set of concerns.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction: William Butler Yeats
06:28 - Chapter 2. W. B. Yeats and King Goll
14:41 - Chapter 3. W. B. Yeats Poem: "The Song of the Wandering Aengus"
27:01 - Chapter 4. W. B. Yeats Poem: "A Coat"
32:45 - Chapter 5. W. B. Yeats Poem: "The Fisherman"
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://oyc.yale.edu
This course was recorded in Spring 2007.
- published: 06 Dec 2012
- views: 137962
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Sailing to Byzantium - W. B. Yeats (Powerful Life Poetry)
Read by Doug Barron
Music by Hammock
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William Butler Yeats was a Nobel Prize winning Irish writer, widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the 20t...
Read by Doug Barron
Music by Hammock
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William Butler Yeats was a Nobel Prize winning Irish writer, widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.
"Sailing to Byzantium" is Yeats' definitive statement about the agony of old age and the imaginative and spiritual work required to remain a healthy individual even when the heart is "fastened to a dying animal" (the body).
Yeats's solution is to leave the country of the young and travel to Byzantium, where the sages in the city's famous gold mosaics could become the "singing-masters" of his soul. He hopes the sages will appear in fire and take him away from his body into an existence outside time, where, like a great work of art, he could exist in "the artifice of eternity."
In the final stanza of the poem, he declares that once he is out of his body he will never again appear in the form of a natural thing; rather, he will become a golden bird, sitting on a golden tree, singing of the past, the present, and the future.
https://wn.com/Sailing_To_Byzantium_W._B._Yeats_(Powerful_Life_Poetry)
Read by Doug Barron
Music by Hammock
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William Butler Yeats was a Nobel Prize winning Irish writer, widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.
"Sailing to Byzantium" is Yeats' definitive statement about the agony of old age and the imaginative and spiritual work required to remain a healthy individual even when the heart is "fastened to a dying animal" (the body).
Yeats's solution is to leave the country of the young and travel to Byzantium, where the sages in the city's famous gold mosaics could become the "singing-masters" of his soul. He hopes the sages will appear in fire and take him away from his body into an existence outside time, where, like a great work of art, he could exist in "the artifice of eternity."
In the final stanza of the poem, he declares that once he is out of his body he will never again appear in the form of a natural thing; rather, he will become a golden bird, sitting on a golden tree, singing of the past, the present, and the future.
- published: 16 May 2020
- views: 307255
28:28
W. B. Yeats documentary
William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a ...
William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish literary establishment who helped to found the Abbey Theatre. In his later years he served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.
W. B. Yeats documentary
2005
Thumbnail by Mary Bassett
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/william-butler-yeats-literary-legend-by-mary-bassett-mary-bassett.html?product=framed-print
https://wn.com/W._B._Yeats_Documentary
William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish literary establishment who helped to found the Abbey Theatre. In his later years he served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.
W. B. Yeats documentary
2005
Thumbnail by Mary Bassett
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/william-butler-yeats-literary-legend-by-mary-bassett-mary-bassett.html?product=framed-print
- published: 06 Oct 2022
- views: 68598
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When You Are Old - W. B. Yeats read by Cillian Murphy | Powerful Life Poetry
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a ...
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. - Plato
When You Are Old by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
#poetry #love
https://wn.com/When_You_Are_Old_W._B._Yeats_Read_By_Cillian_Murphy_|_Powerful_Life_Poetry
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. - Plato
When You Are Old by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
#poetry #love
- published: 27 Jul 2022
- views: 1403589
5:30
William Butler Yeats Quotes To Give You A Different Perspective Of Life | Life Changing Quotes
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary estab...
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others.
#WilliamButlerYeatsQuotes #WilliamButlerYeats #SimplyMotivation
https://wn.com/William_Butler_Yeats_Quotes_To_Give_You_A_Different_Perspective_Of_Life_|_Life_Changing_Quotes
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others.
#WilliamButlerYeatsQuotes #WilliamButlerYeats #SimplyMotivation
- published: 20 Jan 2022
- views: 1640
4:08
Liam Neeson reads WB Yeats' Easter 1916 | RTÉ
Liam Neeson reads WB Yeats' Easter 1916 | RTÉ
See more at: http://www.rte.ie/player
Liam Neeson reads WB Yeats' Easter 1916 | RTÉ
See more at: http://www.rte.ie/player
https://wn.com/Liam_Neeson_Reads_Wb_Yeats'_Easter_1916_|_Rté
Liam Neeson reads WB Yeats' Easter 1916 | RTÉ
See more at: http://www.rte.ie/player
- published: 18 Mar 2016
- views: 182742
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Dominic West reads "The Second Coming" by WB Yeats | A Fanatic Heart: Geldof on Yeats, RTE One
See more at: http://www.rte.ie/player
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world..."
Dominic West reads "The Second Com...
See more at: http://www.rte.ie/player
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world..."
Dominic West reads "The Second Coming" by WB Yeats.
"A Fanatic Heart: Geldof on Yeats" concludes Thursday 31st March, 10.15, RTE One
https://wn.com/Dominic_West_Reads_The_Second_Coming_By_Wb_Yeats_|_A_Fanatic_Heart_Geldof_On_Yeats,_Rte_One
See more at: http://www.rte.ie/player
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world..."
Dominic West reads "The Second Coming" by WB Yeats.
"A Fanatic Heart: Geldof on Yeats" concludes Thursday 31st March, 10.15, RTE One
- published: 30 Mar 2016
- views: 114285
16:25
W.B Yeats' best poems
9 of the best poems by Irish poet W.B. Yeats.
William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the ...
9 of the best poems by Irish poet W.B. Yeats.
William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish literary establishment who helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.
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1. When You Are Old
Music - Sad Reflection and Grief Piano by MusicLFiles
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8272-sad-reflection-and-grief-piano
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
2. The Second Coming
Music - Horizon Flare by Alexander Nakarada
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4837-horizon-flare
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
3. Leda and the Swan
Music - Gymnopedie No. 1 by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3837-gymnopedie-no-1
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4. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Music - https://www.bensound.com
5. Easter 1916
Music - Despair and Triumph by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3641-despair-and-triumph
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
6. An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
Music - Cold Melancholic Autumn by MusicLFiles
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6301-cold-melancholic-autumn
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
7. The Wild Swans at Coole
Music - Touching Moments Four - Melody by Kevin MacLeod
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8. The Song of Wandering Aengus
Music - Horizon Flare by Alexander Nakarada
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4837-horizon-flare
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
9. He Wishes for the Clothes of Heaven
Music - https://www.bensound.com
https://wn.com/W.B_Yeats'_Best_Poems
9 of the best poems by Irish poet W.B. Yeats.
William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish literary establishment who helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.
Subscribe here for more videos - https://tinyurl.com/2p9hjxbs
This channel aims to upload high quality videos relating to all kinds of literature (Poetry, novels, etc.)
1. When You Are Old
Music - Sad Reflection and Grief Piano by MusicLFiles
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8272-sad-reflection-and-grief-piano
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
2. The Second Coming
Music - Horizon Flare by Alexander Nakarada
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4837-horizon-flare
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
3. Leda and the Swan
Music - Gymnopedie No. 1 by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3837-gymnopedie-no-1
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
4. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Music - https://www.bensound.com
5. Easter 1916
Music - Despair and Triumph by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3641-despair-and-triumph
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
6. An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
Music - Cold Melancholic Autumn by MusicLFiles
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6301-cold-melancholic-autumn
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
7. The Wild Swans at Coole
Music - Touching Moments Four - Melody by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4536-touching-moments-four---melody
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
8. The Song of Wandering Aengus
Music - Horizon Flare by Alexander Nakarada
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4837-horizon-flare
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
9. He Wishes for the Clothes of Heaven
Music - https://www.bensound.com
- published: 03 Feb 2022
- views: 215326
12:02
🔵 The Second Coming Poem by William Butler Yeats Summary Analysis Second Coming William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming Poem by William Butler Yeats Summary Analysis Second Coming William Butler Yeats
Written in 1919
by W.B.Yeats
Turning and turning in the wide...
The Second Coming Poem by William Butler Yeats Summary Analysis Second Coming William Butler Yeats
Written in 1919
by W.B.Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
https://www.patreon.com/iswearenglish
http://www.iswearenglish.com/ https://www.facebook.com/iswearenglish https://twitter.com/iswearenglish
#WBYeats #TheSecondComing #WilliamButlerYeats
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The Second Coming Poem by William Butler Yeats Summary Analysis Second Coming William Butler Yeats
Written in 1919
by W.B.Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
https://www.patreon.com/iswearenglish
http://www.iswearenglish.com/ https://www.facebook.com/iswearenglish https://twitter.com/iswearenglish
#WBYeats #TheSecondComing #WilliamButlerYeats
- published: 08 Jul 2022
- views: 25794