This poem describes the drowning of the "ceremony of innocence" by the "blood-dimmed tide." The speaker imagines seeing "A shape with lion body and the head of a man;" the "vast image out of Spiritus Mundi [SPIH-rih-toos MOON-dee]" troubled the narrator's sight. As "the falcon cannot hear the falconer" in this poem, "things fall apart, the center cannot hold." Name this po
This poem describes the drowning of the "ceremony of innocence" by the "blood-dimmed tide." The speaker imagines seeing "A shape with lion body and the head of a man;" the "vast image out of Spiritus Mundi [SPIH-rih-toos MOON-dee]" troubled the narrator's sight. As "the falcon cannot hear the falconer" in this poem, "things fall apart, the center cannot hold." Name this poem by William Butler Yeats concerning the return of a beast.
This poem describes the drowning of the "ceremony of innocence" by the "blood-dimmed tide.