Posted on November 24, 2009 by by Loresev

Poetry and Prose at the Pub 29^th of November

Theme: Slouching Towards Bethlehem

For our last readings for the year we are using the poem by William Butler Yeats The Second Coming.

Christmas is interesting for all and not just the religious in our culture. Bethlehem of course, makes possible Calvary and Armageddon.

What does Christmas mean to you with this in mind?

This  month the theme is open around the theme of the Yeats poem and the meaning of Christmas in general.

 

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

               THE SECOND COMING

    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.

    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: a waste of desert sand;
    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
    Wind shadows of the 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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