英国文学Yeats the second coming.ppt

William ButlerYeats YouTube - Its the End of the World as We Know It (R.E.M) Born on June 13, 1865 in the seaside village of Sandymount in Dublin, Ireland In 1884 he enrolled in the Metropolitan School of Art, where he published his first works Yeats met friend and lady patron Augusta Gregory in 1894 where his involvement in Irish literary theatre began In 1903 William Butler went on his first lecture tour of the United States At the age of 73 William Butler Yeats died on January 28,1939 TURNING and turning in the widening gyreThe 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 everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.Surely some revelation is at hand;Surely the Second Coming is at hand.The Second Coming! Hardly are those words outWhen a vast image out of Spiritus MundiTroubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desertA 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 itReel shadows of the indignant desert birds.The darkness drops again; but now I knowThat 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? Analysis “TURNING and turning in the widening gyre, The falcon cannot hear the falconer;” – sets up the chaos that the wind is so violent the falcon cannot hear its master The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned. – Yeats shows how the chaos and anarchy is spreading throughout the world “The best lack all conviction, while the worst, Are full of passionate intensity.”– The best people in the world are lacking all conviction and the worst people are fired with intense passion “Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely