Rugged Beast Its Hour Come Round At Last

Is moving its slow thighs while all about it reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

Rugged beast its hour come round at last.

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. Yeats s the second coming the 1919 poem from which the phrase originates. And what rough beast its hour come round at last slouches towards bethlehem to be born. The darkness drops again.

And what rough beast its hour come round at last slouches towards bethlehem to be born. William butler yeats widely considered one of the greatest poets of the english language received the 1923 nobel prize for literature. Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle and what rough beast its hour come round at last. We re bringing out w b.

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. Keeping in mind the overall message of the poem the apocalypse a rocking cradle could refer to the birth of the anti christ literal and figuratively and bethlehem was the birth place of jesus christ. The darkness drops again. That twenty centuries of stony sleep.

What rough beast its hour come round at last slouches towards bethlehem to be born. Is moving its slow thighs while all about it. The darkness drops again over the speaker s sight but he knows that the sphinx s twenty centuries of stony sleep have been made a nightmare by the motions of a rocking cradle and what rough beast he wonders its hour come round at last slouches towards bethlehem to be born. And what rough beast its hour come round at last slouches towards bethlehem to be born.

Yeats in 1919 first printed in the dial in november 1920 and afterwards included in his 1921 collection of verses michael robartes and the dancer. Well i dunno either but this is your fark writer s thread the somewhat delayed by election madness edition. Were vexed to nightmare by. Yeats s the second coming.

Is moving its slow thighs while all about it. The second coming is a poem written by irish poet w. But now i know. And what rough beast its hour come round at last slouches towards bethlehem to be born.