The Second Coming - William Butler Yeats poem
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- Опубликовано: 15 дек 2020
- Poetry reading of The Second Coming (1919) by W.B. Yeats.
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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?
The Second Coming - written by W.B. Yeats
Narrated by Jordan Harling
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Author image:
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By Alice Boughton (Whyte's) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Even truer today than it was when Yeats wrote it! Thank you for posting this!
ITS HOUR COME ROUND AT LAST!
i think were getting pretty close!
That first stanza sounds like it was written for today as a creeping, profoundly malevolent totalitarianism infects our world.
Came to RUclips to find this. Subscribed ❤️🔔, liked 👍, and commenting 💬 for the algorithm.
I thought this poem was relevant back in the late 1980s when I first read it. And it was. But it seems even more fitting in today's chaotic world. Thank you for reading it with such soul as opposed to the terrible AI-generated versions!
The lines that resonate for me are: "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" (The Second Coming. W.B. Yeats Seven Centuries of Poetry in English. Ed. John Leonard).
Same here brother, also 'the centre cannot hold, things fall apart' and 'Twenty centuries of stony sleep' - that's present day my friend 🙁
Love your readings! Thank you!
So peaceful puts me to sleep
Wonderful.
We, the falcon, really have lost sight of our Falconer. High time we listened for his call and return to his steady arm and guidance.
All religonis a hoax
My name is Ozymandis...
Ozymandias? Look upon my works ye mighty and despair. I can see similarities in the desert setting. But Shelley, by virtue of the age he lived in could never have seen a picture of the Terrible Sphinx - Abu l'Hool, father of terror as it is know in Arabic.
Bring the chaos, tear the center apart, to rain down. Burying' all it beholds.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Dunning-Krueger
Longfellow
Wordsworth: Ode on Intimations of Immortality.
Jim Morrison-esque
Cormac McCarthy brought me here - specifically the character of Anton Chigurgh
Read Shelly's Ozymandias.
From which country do you belong? please tell me. I am from India.
作为一个中国人，我很难理解这首诗的韵律和意义。
Total subject matter telling.......
Here comes Marvin the paranoid robot.slouching toward Bethlehem
Gyre is pronounced /jīr/
It's said that Yeats himself pronounced it with a hard g sound
Beth lehem, 2nd coming, Jesus,Jerusalem ,is coming to fight against the oppressors.
The first paragraph is a prophetic vision of 2024 England, which had degenerated and lost its way spiritually. A vociferous strident and self righteous minority dictates & demands the relatively silent majority to change and conform to new norms -such as redefining marriage/man/woman. It is all too sad: a perversion and malignant mutation of our once Green and Pleasant Land. If we cannot rescue ourselves, will King Arthur return as ancient myth promises ?
Horrible recitation