[lit-ideas] Re: End of Times
- From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:16:33 -0700
Wow. It's been years since I read this. And I have the sense that I never
read it before. Wow.
>ck
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From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 1:29 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: End of Times
> Yeats seems even more prescient now than when the poem was written.
> Thanks, Helen.
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> John
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> On 7/23/06, Helen Wishart <hwishart@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> The Second Coming
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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.
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>> 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 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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>> January 1919
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>> W.B. Yeats
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>> From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>> On Behalf Of Andy Amago
>> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 1:54 AM
>> To: lit-ideas
>> Subject: [lit-ideas] End of Times
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>> http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-endtimes22jun22,0,5277604,full.story?coll=la-headlines-california
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