Poem Quotes
- Created by: rhowainharvey
- Created on: 07-04-14 13:58
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- The Second Coming
- "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned;"
- Imagery. Sea turning to blood. Reversal of Christianity, baptism. Hope & innocence is lost. No chance of salvation.
- Image of monster heading to Bethlehem. Final destruction of traditional values/innocence. Grotesque image of monster.
- 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/ Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds."
- And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,/ Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
- Image of monster heading to Bethlehem. Final destruction of traditional values/innocence. Grotesque image of monster.
- "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned;"
- Imagery. Sea turning to blood. Reversal of Christianity, baptism. Hope & innocence is lost. No chance of salvation.
- 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/ Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds."
- And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,/ Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
- Biblical imagery. Desert image. Egyptian mythology. Sphinx moving. Horrifying image. Image of death. Reversal of traditional values. World is in absolute chaos.
- And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,/ Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
- Imagery. Sea turning to blood. Reversal of Christianity, baptism. Hope & innocence is lost. No chance of salvation.
- Biblical imagery. Desert image. Egyptian mythology. Sphinx moving. Horrifying image. Image of death. Reversal of traditional values. World is in absolute chaos.
- And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,/ Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
- Imagery. Sea turning to blood. Reversal of Christianity, baptism. Hope & innocence is lost. No chance of salvation.
- "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned;"
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