Poetry Corner: The Second Coming - Yeats

[cjbroon36]

Please read it properly. It's supposed to be dramatic. Good images though

[russiandoodets]

You read it wrong. The punctuation is there for a reason.

[samanthazurcher]

fail... it's pronounced yates, not yeets.

[tremben]

Thanks ... needed that ... so many hack-kneed readings here.

cheers

[SgtHydra]

Despite krazlica's negitivity, I thought you did a great job with the reading.

[krazlica123]

Please never read poetry aloud again.

[nathanforst1]

Sorry! I love poetry. If you don't like it, take a hike!

[STOPandsaid]

''An irish airman foresees his dead''from william butler...have you read it?i heard a band wrote a song that was inspired on that poem

stop<<

[krazlica123]

I like poetry, just not you reading it

[nathanforst1]

Nice comment. I am so glad you took the time out of your completely boring ass day to write it. Very constructive.

[TheAwedCouple]

Five stars!

[seekthevisceral]

Yes! My second favorite Yeats poem. I love them all, but 'Brown Penny' would be my numero uno.

[AnarchyBegins]

this is what I tell those end-days nuts.

WHERE WAS YOUR SECOND COMING IN WW1, and WW2, HUH?

fuck religion.

[nathanforst1]

Yes, screw religion. However, this poem is more about the darkness of humanity and the horrors that we can bestow upon ourselves. Yes, Yeats was a christian but this poem is so much more than just the mindless ramblings of a Christian.

[AnarchyBegins]

oh.

I thought it was saying that there is no second coming.

[nathanforst1]

Yeats lived through world war one and wrote this poem in its aftermath. He was a christian and wrote this poem to describe the second coming of christ. Like most christians, I guess he assumed that Jebus would come and save us from ourselves....

Guess he was wrong.

[AnarchyBegins]

that's pretty interesting. it's weird how perception is (almost) everything, ain't it?

perhaps it was the tone in which you were reading it aloud, sounded very...I dunno...disheartened or something. Dismayed..? I don't know.

It makes me sick to hear Christians saying Jebus will save us from WW3.

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[KerryPanda]

"Jesus" will be more likely to lead them into World War 3.

[AnarchyBegins]

indeed. Israel; the result of WW2 and the cause of WW3

[IcyGoats]

I could listen to you for hours.

[nathanforst1]

Thank you, very much!

[abaddon5]

Adding the pictures just made it that much more powerful. It's sad that we still haven't learned from our mistakes of the past.

[Singebuggercat]

well, some of us have, just not enough of us yet.

[abaddon5]

Singebuggercat:

Yeah, that's what I meant. Humans in general are stupid.

[AnarchyBegins]

some of us have learned, man.

And we are teaching the rest.

I refuse to believe that we are damned to repeat history AGAIN. not on my watch.

[abaddon5]

We'll keep trying, man. Atheists are growing in numbers.