Rugged Beast Its Hour Come Round At Last

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.

Rugged beast its hour come round at last.

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

The second coming is a poem written by irish poet w. We re bringing out w b. Is moving its slow thighs while all about it. That twenty centuries of stony sleep.

And what rough beast its hour come round at last slouches towards bethlehem to be born. The darkness drops again. Yeats s the second coming. And what rough beast its hour come round at last slouches towards bethlehem to be born october 29 2013october 29 2013 carolyn o halloween approaches friends and what better way to ring it in than with the scariest freakin poem in the english language.

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle and what rough beast its hour come round at last. Were vexed to nightmare by. Is moving its slow thighs while all about it reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. And what rough beast its hour come round at last slouches towards bethlehem to be born.

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. The only thing not doing any slouching these days is the rough beast in w. William butler yeats widely considered one of the greatest poets of the english language received the 1923 nobel prize for literature. Is moving its slow thighs while all about it.

The darkness drops again. 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. This poem is in the public domain.