And all our strength, and all our art
Shall make wonders to behold'
Is this a quality poem or simply me a bit drunk aftter lunch?
2007-11-15 11:41:08 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ok I'm sozzled can I give 'best answer' now please?
2007-11-15 12:14:10 · update #1
Gave you all thumbs up ha ha have now put ice in it.
2007-11-15 12:16:28 · update #2
Gave you all thumbs up ha ha have now put ice in it.
2007-11-15 12:16:43 · update #3
What? Knock off the Jagermeisters at lunch. With our fearless world leaders at the helm, the "centre" continues to deteriorate just as it did in 1938. To quote another poet: "the moving finger writes, and having writ moves on." And none of our pills or drinks or whatever else we distract ourselves with will erase a word of it. Cheers!
2007-11-15 11:58:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
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.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
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?
William Butler Yeats
Now that's a poem!
2007-11-15 19:49:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The first part is a rip off of WB Yates, so that is quality. The rest is you a bit drunk.
2007-11-15 19:44:18 · answer #3 · answered by atheist 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
sounds like a corrupted quote from a well known book by nearly the same name. it should read "things fall apart, the center will not hold".
2007-11-15 19:44:43 · answer #4 · answered by Free Radical 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why can't it be both?
A lot of great art of all forms was created by people whose consciousness was pretty severely altered.
2007-11-15 19:44:21 · answer #5 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
'Things fall apart; the center cannot hold -" a little less optimistic .
2007-11-15 19:44:04 · answer #6 · answered by irish1 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The original, which had different words, is a great poem.
CD
2007-11-15 19:44:20 · answer #7 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
lay off the sauce
2007-11-15 19:44:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋