Harold Bloom traces this poem's reference to "stony sleep" to Blake's The Book of Urizen, and Bloom finds this poem's askesis in its author's misreading of that phrase.
Harold Bloom traces this poem's reference to "stony sleep" to Blake's The Book of Urizen, and Bloom finds this poem's askesis in its author's misreading of that phrase. Early in this poem "the ceremony of innocence is drowned" by the "blood-dimmed tide." This poem considers "a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi," that is, a "shape with lion body and the head of a man" that "slouches toward Bethlehem to be born." This poem opens by describing how "turning and turning in the widening gyre/ the falcon cannot hear the falconer." For 10 points, name this poem by William Butler Yeats.
Harold Bloom traces this poem's reference to "stony sleep" to Blake's The Book of Urizen, and Bloom finds this poem's askesis in its author's misreading of that phrase.
“The {Second Coming}”