...\ purely some^evektion is at hand ; | I Surely fhe~Second Doming is at hancL \ The Second Com1ng ! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of...round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born ? \ A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER ONCE more the storm is howling and half hid ' d. Under this cradle-hood...

...Coming' (1921): 'Surely some revelation is at hand;/ Surely the Second Coming is at hand. . . . / ¡But] what rough beast, its hour come round at last, /Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?' WB Yeats, Collected Poems (1933; rev. ed. London: Macmillan, 1983), p.211. 12 Frank Lentricchia, Modernist...

...antithetical gyre was instead symbolised by the beast's awaking after twenty centuries of stony sleep: And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be bom? (P 187) Thus, the birth of a new Christ was revealed by the "active rising" of the beast towards...

...process. The following much-quored lines from Yeats's poem The Second Coming illustrare these points: And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Berhlehem to be born? In the modern world a new Chtist is unlikely to be born. It is more likely to...

...the spread of Christianity, what sort of world will it be after the birth of this savage creature? Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon...round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? gyre — spiraling circle, suggesting the passage of time anarchy — state of extreme disorder blood-dimmed...

...Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of "Spiritus Mundi" Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the...round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?' WB Yeats contentious issue of locating US Polaris bases in Scotland. I quickly learned that the politics...

...some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are the words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi...round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? -William Butler Yeats0 * Yeats claims in a private letter of April 1936 to Ethel Mannin: "... My horror...

...Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the...last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? WBYeats CHR1S COLE Chris Cole works for the Campaign Against Arms Trade as Local Network Coordinator. l GREW...

...hear him now: The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; .. .Twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare...round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? ' " F'rom the hall they heard Wallace coming up the stairs saying, "'Zannah:' Arc you alright.-'" Susannah...

...Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds. 150 The darkness drops again but now I know That thirty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by...come round at last Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?40 The poem may take its rise from the same reaction to the unleashing of Bolshevism which prompted...