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... Aldous Huxley: A Quest for Values - Seite xivvon Milton Birnbaum - 230 SeitenEingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
| Sir John Collings Squire - 1921 - 730 Seiten
...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...is drowned ; The best lack all conviction while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. XXII The Huxley, Tyndall, Carolus Duran, Bastien- Lepage coven... | |
| William Butler Yeats - 1916 - 536 Seiten
...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...is drowned; The best lack all conviction while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. XXIII If abstraction had reached, or all but reached its climax,... | |
| Ramnarayan Vyas - 1928 - 176 Seiten
...Yeats has depicted the situation in the following words: "Things fall apart: the centre cannot hold, Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed...is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Therefore, we certainly need right type of men, who can understand... | |
| Godfrey Hodgson - 2005 - 612 Seiten
...thought of the lines from Yeats's poem The Second Coming: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold: Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed...and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned. . . . That is not my estimate, however, nor the argument of this book. They were terrible years, of... | |
| Peter Hühn, Jens Kiefer - 2005 - 276 Seiten
...hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, 5 The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The...is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. SURELY some revelation is at hand; 10 Surely the Second Coming... | |
| Louis E. Wolcher - 2005 - 274 Seiten
...Yeats' poem The Second Coming had already long since begun to unfold into still more terrible events: The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The...is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. (Yeats 1989: 187) I have always thought that the last two lines... | |
| Lawrence Rainey - 2005 - 1217 Seiten
...hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, 5 The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The...is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; 10 Surely the Second Coming... | |
| Flo Conway, Jim Siegelman - 1995 - 384 Seiten
...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...everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned.... —WBYeats "The Second Coming" IN THE EIGHTIES, shades of Jonestown fell on American soil, as we watched... | |
| R. N. Vyas - 2005 - 284 Seiten
...because of these Varna-Sankaras. As the poet Yeats says: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; The anarchy is loosed upon the world. The blood-dimmed...everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned." In this context let us heed the warning of the Bhagavadgita: 'Better is one's own law though imperfectly... | |
| Dennis Chamberland - 2005 - 424 Seiten
...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. "Peter, who are we in this anarchy? Are we the best who lack... | |
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