" For ten points, name this poem relating the imminent birth of a rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem, written by W.B. Yeats.
This poem references its author's previous work A Vision, and it was published in the collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer. William Blake's work Urizen is referenced in the line about the "stony sleep" of a giant sphinx that arises from Spiritus Mundi. Asserting that "the ceremony of innocence is drowned," it presages the ending of a 2000-year historical cycle that comes about as "mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." For ten points, name this poem relating the imminent birth of a rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem, written by W.B. Yeats.
This poem references its author's previous work A Vision, and it was published in the collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer.
“The {Second Coming}”