...poem The Second Coming looks at the changes taking place in the world at the close of World War I: And what rough beast its hour come round at last slouches towards Bethlehem to be born. (Fineran, 1989:187) Petals of Blood is divided as follows: * Part One: Walking ^ Part Two: Towards...

...carnival. This, too, is in a larger sense part of the carnival story and must not be forgotten. Cf. "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming." 108 8 PETER MINSHALL A voice to add to the song of the universe...

...toward Gomorrah." This phrase was an ironic play on a line in a 192 1 poem by William Butler Yeats: "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,/ Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" The ironist was former judge Robert Bork, who titled his 1 996 book about America's moral decline Slouching...

...the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of indignant desert birds. . . . And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? —WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, "THE SECOND COMING" Author's Note While researching the ways in which the...

...innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity . . . And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?' WB Yeats, The Second Coming 'Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows!...

...46. Northrop Frye, The Well-Tempered Critic (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1963), 154. 47. "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming," in The Norton Anthology of Poetry, ed. Arthur M. Eastman...

...the apocalypse by William Butler Yeats entitled "The Second Coming," the final lines of which read: "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" OUR HEROES ALEXIS DENISOF: "The relationship with Lilah was very interesting. It was such a signpost...

...the light of Christ, and this "Lord" will be the "ruler of this world" (John 14:30). As Yeats asked, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?6 URI supporter Barbara Marx Hubbard shares Swing's visions of earthly utopia: "In the past our...

...is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Miiiuli Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert...round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? "La Segunda Venida" Girando y girando en círculos cada vez mayores el halcón no puede oír al halconero;...

...indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now 1 know That twenty centuries of stony sleep 20 Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what...come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be bom? WB Yeats, The Poems: A New Edition, ed. RJ Finneran (New York, 1983), 187. W(illiam) B(utler)...