Sujet : Re: PPB: The Second Coming / W.B. Yeats
De : will.dockery (at) *nospam* gmail.com (W.Dockery)
Groupes : alt.arts.poetry.comments rec.arts.poemsDate : 15. Mar 2025, 10:34:52
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George J. Dance wrote:
Faraway Star wrote:
Will Dockery wrote:
Faraway Star wrote:
George J. wrote:
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Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
The Second Coming, by William Butler Yeats
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The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity
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https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-second-coming-william-butler-yeats.html
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("Slouching towards Bethlehem" sung by Joni Mitchell)
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#pennyspoems
Love Yeats AND Joni M...!
Agreed, great selection, George.
Great minds and all that... ha ha.
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Thanks for keeping the thread where it can be noticed. I was happy to
get this poem onto the blog. It was Joni MItchell's interpretation that
brought me back to the poem; on rereading it, I was struck by how much
the time Yeats describes sound like our own, and the latter is why I
decided to blog it. Judging by the commenhts and reads (80 in its first
three days), it seems to have resonated with a lot of readers.
Now more than ever in many ways.
Thanks again for posting, George.
Re: PPB: The Second Coming / W.B. Yeats