 Mundi Troubles 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...  The Athlete's Way: Sweat and the Biology of Bliss - Pàgina 315per Christopher Bergland - 2007 - 353 pàginesPrevisualització limitada - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Ted C. Lewellen - 2002 - 282 pàgines
...Globalatio, Clobalemic, Clobalescent, Globalactic, Globaloney . . . Richard Wilk, "Globobabble"1 . . . what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming" "Globalization" has become the academic and media buzzword... | |
 | Linda Jones, Sophie Stanes - 2003 - 218 pàgines
...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...round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? WBYeats CHR1S COLE Chris Cole works for the Campaign Against Arms Trade as Local Network Coordinator.... | |
 | 1965 - 530 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Susan Wise Bauer - 2003 - 432 pàgines
...the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. . . . The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty...rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born? Yeats, like the other great Modernists, sees chaos, dissolution, and violence... | |
 | Charles Covington - 2003 - 332 pàgines
...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... | |
 | R. F. Foster - 2005 - 856 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Robert Wilson - 2003 - 336 pàgines
...careful of around here — Irish trickster. And out came the Yeats on cue to annoy the ex-soldier. ' "The darkness drops again but now I know That twenty...vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what— "' 'That's as maybe,' Martin cut in. 'Perhaps we should concentrate on the situation in hand. We have... | |
 | Stephen Young - 2003 - 226 pàgines
...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 We have met the enemy and he is us. —Pogo THE PROBLEMS MANY PEOPLE ASSOCIATE with... | |
 | Michael O'Neill - 2004 - 194 pàgines
...comes into the open: 'a vast image . . . Troubles my sight:'. Having described the image he sums up: but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, Just as Yeats never wrote a love poem that does not treat of lover as well as of beloved, we are not... | |
 | Richard A. Posner - 2003 - 456 pàgines
...exemplifies the genre. The title comes from the last two lines of Yeats's poem "The Second Coming": "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" Bork's use of the poem will not commend itself to lovers of poetry and language — this in a book... | |
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