 | Stan Smith - 1990 - 196 Seiten
...of another semi-divine transformer of history, Christ, so that, in the words of The Second Coming', 'twenty centuries of stony sleep /Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle'. Dove and swan here initiate and 'stand for' antithetical moments of history. But elsewhere the swan... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 Seiten
...Coming is at hand, 10 The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out ofSpiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the...sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, 20 And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be bom? SAILING... | |
 | Ira Livingston - 1997 - 276 Seiten
...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...rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born? — William Butler Yeats Yeats's "Second Coming" describes the phenomenon... | |
 | R. L. Brett - 1997 - 284 Seiten
...see the Anti-Christ, but the poem ends not with certainty, only with a deeply disturbing question: but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep...rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born? Some may consider this mere fantasy and accuse Yeats of the naivety displayed... | |
 | David Halliburton - 1997 - 428 Seiten
...with Shelley that as a deep truth it is imageless. Yet something of its quality can be conveyed: . . . but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep...rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born? (CHT187) On a first reading there is no reason to suppose that the climactic... | |
 | Richard J. Finneran - 1996 - 296 Seiten
...form of a terminal question that expects an affirmative answer occurs in the poem "The Second Coming": The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to niahtmarc hv a rocking cradle. And what rough beast. Us hour come round at last. Slouches towards Bethlehem... | |
 | John McRae - 1998 - 172 Seiten
...Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, 15 A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its...but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep 20 Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,... | |
 | Ken McGoogan, Kenneth McGoogan - 1999 - 282 Seiten
...of it, and through my mind, unbidden, danced a couple of old familiar lines from The Second Coming: "The darkness drops again; but now I know / that twenty...sleep / were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle." Why those lines? Who cared? "Safiya, when was the last time you visited San Francisco?" "Twenty years,... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 2000 - 556 Seiten
...thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; bul now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, 20 And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem'' to be born? [1920]... | |
 | Susan Knutson - 2000 - 246 Seiten
...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;...rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born? (402) Yeats's celebrated poem expresses his theory that in the twentieth... | |
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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... 
