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sho sho
12-28-2010, 09:15 AM
Hello

guys , please help me

I have a presentation tomorow

indeed I'm not interested in literature

so I couldn't analyse this poim

The Secon coming

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?



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tell me
what ia the theme of this poem
and also the Tone
the Imagery
every thing comes to your mind

please :yikes:
don't ignore me
say anything

Ian waiting for you

Jassy Melson
12-28-2010, 10:11 AM
Yeats once made the statement that The Second Coming has multiple meanings. It's not just refering to Christianity. Yeats was interested in the idea of two thousand-year-old cycles. The Second Coming is about one of these cycles as much as it is Christiainity.