The Second Coming - W.B. Yeats米饭英语怎么说
五大联赛1919年,整个世界,特别是欧洲正努力而缓慢地从第一次世界大战的阴影中恢复过来。威廉·巴特勒·叶芝面对周遭形形色色的社会问题,为一个充满了罪恶、污染、混乱和颓废的世界发出悲叹。在他看来,这是有史以来最暴力和无法无天的时代。世界缺乏有系统的信仰维系,各个群体在互动
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
The opening lines of "The Second Coming" introduce two major symbols in the poem which work to reprent the n that contemporary society has lost control. The symbol of the gyre reprents eternity. As the prent society draws to a clo, Yeats es the gyre of eternity widening. At the birth of a new era the motion of the gyre is narrow. The falcon reprents the role of man and current society. As the falcon travels the motion of the gyre, it becomes less aware of its master, the falconer, who reprents the order and structure in
society杜鹃花掉叶子. This implies that Yeats's notion of contemporary society is being destroyed by its lack of order, or anarchy. Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is lood upon the world,
怎样地说The lines confirm the above idea by showing that without order "Things fall apart." Society's center dissolves as the gyre widens, introducing anarchy.
The blood-dimmed tide is lood, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
In the lines the conflict between order and anarchy continues. The image of the "blood-dimmed tide" is a violent one which drowns the "ceremony of innocence." Here again, the reader will note that the ceremony, or the ordered part of society is destroyed by the chaotic, violent side.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The lines further explore the chaos and violence of the poem's society. Humanity has been divided into the "best" and the "worst," and as one would expect in this dying civilization the worst of humanity holds power fueled by "passionate intensity."
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
In the lines the speaker contemplates the violence in society as a sign of Christ's prediction of the cond coming, but the near-repetition and the question-like quality of the lines imply that the speaker is not at all certain of his guess.
The Second Coming! Hardly are tho words out
When a vast image out of Spritus Mundi
Here the speaker experiences a vision similar to the one experienced by the apostle John
山羊分腿腾越with regards to the Beast of the Apocalyp. The speaker's vision comes out of the Spiritus Mundi which means literally "spirit of the world." For Yeats, the Spiritus Mundi was similar to Carl Jung's idea of the collective unconscious. It is a storehou of symbols buried in the unconscious which are received from some higher power.
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the dert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
The speaker's horrific vision is of a supernatural creature with a body that is half-lion and half-man[griffin桥的简笔画]. This beast reprents the new god of the new era. As stated earlier in the poem, order has been destroyed and now is replaced by a supernatural being who combines the image of humanity with a violent, disturbing image of nature. Note also that this vision is t in a dert landscape. This implies that the coming era will create a dry, withered existence.
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
党史简介
Reel shadows of the indignant dert birds.
In the lines the beast is given qualities that em lifeless. It is described as pitiless, the opposite of what Christ reprents. Notice the ominous description of it's movements. This dark mood is continued with the image of the dert birds circling clo by. The birds em to be a transformation of the falcon earlier in the poem. As scavenger birds they wait to profit from the death and destruction.
The darkness drops again; 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?
In the last lines of the poem the speaker fores the Christian era, described as "twenty centuries of stony sleep," taken over and destroyed by this "rough" god who chaotic image reprents the opposite of Christian order. It "slouches" towards Christ's birthplace as if to annihilate the very beginnings of the Christian era. In doing so, the cycle completes and the new, nightmarish era begins.
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William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming" (1921)
“The Second Coming” 1921
In this poem, we e Yeats' interest in synthesizing veral different world views into one global theory of human history. Towards this end, Yeats studied Hinduism, Celtic history, Christianity, Buddhism, and the occult. Like many of his contemporaries -- Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce, for example -- Yeats sought to discover and create a unified theory of world history. We can understand this goal if we consider the historical context: in the wake of World War I, most Europeans and Americans found their world views badly shaken. Yeats sought to put the pieces of European culture back together by discovering
their origins in world literature and religions.
