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merritt's MusingsAuthor: Jason Merritt
I am an experienced English teacher who loves poetry, literature and education. Hear my thoughts on my favorite poems, as well as tips and tricks for how to help students learn. And thoughts about my dogs.I'd love to hear your thoughts on this podcast and any suggestions you may have for topics/poems for me to muse about. Please email me at svahatao@yahoo.com. Language: en-us Genres: Arts, Books, Education Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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"Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats
Episode 25
Monday, 30 June, 2025
Send us a textThe Second ComingBy William Butler YeatsTurning 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 MundiTroubles 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 again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleepWere vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming
