The phrase "twenty centuries of stony sleep" in this poem is a reference to William Blake, and it follows a line stating "the darkness drops again." One image in this poem is a "shape with lion body and the head of a man" with "a gaze black and pitiless as the sun." This poem recalls the troubling image of the "vast image out of Spiritus Mundi." It contains the lines "The falcon cannot hear the falconer" and "Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold." For 10 points, ide
The phrase "twenty centuries of stony sleep" in this poem is a reference to William Blake, and it follows a line stating "the darkness drops again." One image in this poem is a "shape with lion body and the head of a man" with "a gaze black and pitiless as the sun." This poem recalls the troubling image of the "vast image out of Spiritus Mundi." It contains the lines "The falcon cannot hear the falconer" and "Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold." For 10 points, identify this poem beginning "Turning and turning in the widening gyre," a poem about an apocalyptic event, written by William Butler Yeats.
The phrase "twenty centuries of stony sleep" in this poem is a reference to William Blake, and it follows a line stating "the darkness drops again.
"The Second Coming"