I'm truly not trying to be rude, but your voice is much to flat and monotone to give this Yeats classic any life. My rating is a genorous E for effort. Sorry. Folks, if you want to hear a reading that captures the essence of this poem, visit SpokenVerse and watch his reading.
This was written shortly after WWI, when he thought the world couldn't get any worse, and it would probably end soon. I find it inspiring, to say the least. Every generation has its troubles, and every one thinks they'll be the last
After twenty centuries of stoney sleep The millenium is reached Then the pityless beast Whose time has come stirs forth from the desert sun Slouching through the unravelled center And into the affairs of man will reenter. The falcon and the falconer lose control as the beast exerts its relentless hold. Twenty long centuries now returned from exile Its face is frozen in a sardonic smile In a nightmare birth Beneath the harsh desert sun The second coming has begun
@monicasm123 I've heard Yeats wrote many versions. Are these lines from one of them?First I thought you were just offering an analysis of what you see happening after the poem ends. But then I noticed the rhyming, which is very cool, but so unlike the form of the version I know. Please tell me what these lines you wrote are from. They're cool, but if they're Yeats, I'm glad he cut them. I love the poem the way it is. This would be a cool afterword perhaps.
Its possibly the greatest poem of all time. It predicted the decline of the Christian Church's influence and subjugation of the people of Europe and the anarchy that would follow, chiefly WW2.
The Irish poet, Patrick Lewis Strachan, has I think predicted even darker days ahead in his poem, Midnight's Resurrection. In chapter 5, titled The Man In The Mask, the ending reads like this:
And behind that bleak and woven face
A time bomb ticks like an epicedium beat.
But now the time of the beast
Has come about at last...and his throne is masked by a democratic seat.
The whole poem is genuinely creepy and very sad, and written in 1994, it predicted 9/11 and the Iraq war.
the palestinians are not indigeneous to "palestine."they are late comers who are even rejected by the jordanians. also interesting to note that although the israelis are depicted as brutalizers in this tape, it is actually the palestinians who murder innocents and brutalize/torture captives. the israelis were there first - the "palestinians" are interlopers who did nothing to develop the area. they want what the israelis have created - an oasis.
interesting how israelis are depicted as brutalizers in this tape while the truth is the real brutalizers and murderers of innocents are the palestinians
Yeats was such an influential poet he should have his own biopic. I was expecting Heath Ledger to accept the role, but because of his untimely death, I have no idea who should replace Yeats for the biopic.
All replies and just the best are the most insluting to Yeats.
Yeats is my fav auhor but just like Toffusaurelius said he was A right wing Rock.
Giving the time he lived in I can relate but his later poems are just garbage to my ears. He didnt gain wisdom he gained korsakopf I... I would say .. the ability to rhyme isnt lost by alcoholics but its centered beeing is.
I have a catalog of all yeates poems and in my Honest op Young is better then old ...
It's a bit ignorant to compare Israel with Hitler.
Israel never brought war upon themselves, many times they have tried to comprimise. The Jews have a home, their original home in Palestine/Israel. What these videos do not show when the Israeli army is pulling away these people, is that they're being pulled away for potential distruptance and minor acts of terrorism; same as what the police do here in the U.S.
The Palestinians were in Palestine before the Israelis -- even in Biblical times, the Israelis expelled the tribes of the Philistines (the Palestinians) from Israel. Then modern Israelis -- not even semites, but european Jews -- came to Israel and displaced the actual semites -- the Palestinians.
Couple that with the fact that some things in Israel are disturbingly Nazi-like -- like in a crude mockery of "PAPERS PLEASE!", being made to carry a card proving you aren't Arab, as my mother had to do when she set up the Palestinian Mortgage and Housing Corporation and the comparison is, in fact, quite apt. You fail, and you're a liar.
The author of this video is quite misguided and ignorant. Yeats was as right-wing as Bush. The Second Coming was inspired in reaction to the Russian Revolution. It's a counter-revolutionary poem.
This poem is about Yeats's belief on the cyclical nature of history. He believed the history was on the verge of another chapter and plays with the idea of a second coming in the form of a Sphinx. In the poem the Sphinx is a creature that is necessary and natural. It has nothing to with anything political.
Nice poem, but it was written along time ago. Proving that history just goes in an infinite circle and there is no such thing as a "second coming". Agree? or do you believe the world is ending?
war is like the tides. they would seem to repeat over and over, but each wave is unlike any that came before it and unlike any that will come after. the world is not ending, just following its inevitable course.
I'm truly not trying to be rude, but your voice is much to flat and monotone to give this Yeats classic any life. My rating is a genorous E for effort. Sorry. Folks, if you want to hear a reading that captures the essence of this poem, visit SpokenVerse and watch his reading.
geoffck6969 11 months ago
I consider this pictorial interpretation of the poem rather an enactment of personal american fantasies.
GammaStrahlenLamm 1 year ago
emo?
ninnyhammer101 1 year ago
The Second Coming = 12/26/2004
rungnuoctrong 2 years ago
It was not written after the second world war at all, but around 19 10, when Yeats wife was going in trances. Great recitation; well done.
SuperBluehaze 2 years ago
1:29
pwnd?
TheHelpPerson 2 years ago
This was written shortly after WWI, when he thought the world couldn't get any worse, and it would probably end soon. I find it inspiring, to say the least. Every generation has its troubles, and every one thinks they'll be the last
smittens888 2 years ago
monicasm123 2 years ago 20
@monicasm123 I've heard Yeats wrote many versions. Are these lines from one of them?First I thought you were just offering an analysis of what you see happening after the poem ends. But then I noticed the rhyming, which is very cool, but so unlike the form of the version I know. Please tell me what these lines you wrote are from. They're cool, but if they're Yeats, I'm glad he cut them. I love the poem the way it is. This would be a cool afterword perhaps.
MckyMseNTarotCrds 10 months ago
the falcon cannot hear the falconer
HMCN2K9 2 years ago
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity
limboquixote 3 years ago
Its possibly the greatest poem of all time. It predicted the decline of the Christian Church's influence and subjugation of the people of Europe and the anarchy that would follow, chiefly WW2.
Thunderfinger2 3 years ago
The Irish poet, Patrick Lewis Strachan, has I think predicted even darker days ahead in his poem, Midnight's Resurrection. In chapter 5, titled The Man In The Mask, the ending reads like this:
And behind that bleak and woven face
A time bomb ticks like an epicedium beat.
But now the time of the beast
Has come about at last...and his throne is masked by a democratic seat.
The whole poem is genuinely creepy and very sad, and written in 1994, it predicted 9/11 and the Iraq war.
happydays450 2 years ago
the palestinians are not indigeneous to "palestine."they are late comers who are even rejected by the jordanians. also interesting to note that although the israelis are depicted as brutalizers in this tape, it is actually the palestinians who murder innocents and brutalize/torture captives. the israelis were there first - the "palestinians" are interlopers who did nothing to develop the area. they want what the israelis have created - an oasis.
dybbuk4640 3 years ago
interesting how israelis are depicted as brutalizers in this tape while the truth is the real brutalizers and murderers of innocents are the palestinians
dybbuk4640 3 years ago
the way u read this is an insult to the poetry u fag.
tomjashroomss 3 years ago
Yeats was such an influential poet he should have his own biopic. I was expecting Heath Ledger to accept the role, but because of his untimely death, I have no idea who should replace Yeats for the biopic.
Bickaa8012 3 years ago
awful american accent, read without meaning.
mikemosocw 4 years ago 8
@mikemosocw Can you show us how it should be read? I'd like to hear that.
Ivan32304 1 year ago
@mikemosocw I would it isn't a strong reading, but if you think the accent is a problem you are a stupid nationalistic bigot.
hobgoblinlkjfdsa 1 year ago
All replies and just the best are the most insluting to Yeats.
Yeats is my fav auhor but just like Toffusaurelius said he was A right wing Rock.
Giving the time he lived in I can relate but his later poems are just garbage to my ears. He didnt gain wisdom he gained korsakopf I... I would say .. the ability to rhyme isnt lost by alcoholics but its centered beeing is.
I have a catalog of all yeates poems and in my Honest op Young is better then old ...
Caponecappy 4 years ago
ya he blew "falconer"
soulstice99 4 years ago
I prefer Sam Watterson's version in the Nixon movie. It's not complete, but he nails it.
soulstice99 4 years ago
It's a bit ignorant to compare Israel with Hitler.
Israel never brought war upon themselves, many times they have tried to comprimise. The Jews have a home, their original home in Palestine/Israel. What these videos do not show when the Israeli army is pulling away these people, is that they're being pulled away for potential distruptance and minor acts of terrorism; same as what the police do here in the U.S.
TheMafiaProdigy 4 years ago
The Palestinians were in Palestine before the Israelis -- even in Biblical times, the Israelis expelled the tribes of the Philistines (the Palestinians) from Israel. Then modern Israelis -- not even semites, but european Jews -- came to Israel and displaced the actual semites -- the Palestinians.
DrMojoPhD 4 years ago
Couple that with the fact that some things in Israel are disturbingly Nazi-like -- like in a crude mockery of "PAPERS PLEASE!", being made to carry a card proving you aren't Arab, as my mother had to do when she set up the Palestinian Mortgage and Housing Corporation and the comparison is, in fact, quite apt. You fail, and you're a liar.
DrMojoPhD 4 years ago
The author of this video is quite misguided and ignorant. Yeats was as right-wing as Bush. The Second Coming was inspired in reaction to the Russian Revolution. It's a counter-revolutionary poem.
Toffusaurelius 5 years ago
This poem is about Yeats's belief on the cyclical nature of history. He believed the history was on the verge of another chapter and plays with the idea of a second coming in the form of a Sphinx. In the poem the Sphinx is a creature that is necessary and natural. It has nothing to with anything political.
shrunkard 5 years ago 2
Actually, I'm rather sure that this poem was inspired by the IRISH revolution.
FightForEire 4 years ago
Why don't you make videos anymore?
BarronNevermore 5 years ago
Sweet!, nice one!, keep em coming damnit!.
ivioivey 5 years ago
i HATE IsRael They Are Killers Same As ( HITLER ) , Nazi .
maxsoftnet 5 years ago
Why do you Hate Israel. The Jewish People now have a home. You can still hate Hitler and be anti-semitic.
snuffydoug 5 years ago
you hate isreal?, HAHA!, you need to do some research about the history of isreal and why they are in war a all the time.
ivioivey 5 years ago
i'm sorry you thought that it was about hatred of israel. That was not the point.
soakedinale 5 years ago
i wish i had something smart to say is war sucks ass.
ThrasherAleX 5 years ago
props man , that was a sweet lil montage you hooked up
BigNiggaBacon 5 years ago
ogm D=
i know you..
JoshThaNinja 5 years ago
That was awesome. Alot of great footage.
JoshThaNinja 5 years ago
Nice poem, but it was written along time ago. Proving that history just goes in an infinite circle and there is no such thing as a "second coming". Agree? or do you believe the world is ending?
Goes211 5 years ago
war is like the tides. they would seem to repeat over and over, but each wave is unlike any that came before it and unlike any that will come after. the world is not ending, just following its inevitable course.
soakedinale 5 years ago 4