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In this work, a "blood-dimmed tide" drowns "the ceremony of innocence," while one creature in this work moves "its slow thighs" and is circled by "indignant desert birds." That creature has a "lion body and the head of a man" and "a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun." The narrator of this work believes that "Surely [the title event] is at hand" before his sight is troubled by "a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi." This poem opens with an image of a "falcon [that] cannot hear the falconer," and ends by describing a "rough beast [that] slouches towards Bethlehem to be born." For 10 points, name this poem that claims that "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold," by William Butler Yeats.
In this work, a "blood-dimmed tide" drowns "the ceremony of innocence," while one creature in this work moves "its slow thighs" and is circled by "indignant desert birds."
"The Second Coming"