After "the blood-dimmed tide is loosed," the narrator describes how "the best lack all conviction/and the worst are full of passionate intensity."
The narrator of this poem knows, as "the darkness drops again," that a long wait was "vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle." One figure in this poem "is moving its slow thighs" and is surrounded by "the wind shadows of the indignant desert birds." The second stanza of this poem describes "a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun" and the disrupting of "twenty centuries of stony sleep" of a "vast image out of (*) Spiritus Mundi." After "the blood-dimmed tide is loosed," the narrator describes how "the best lack all conviction/and the worst are full of passionate intensity." For 10 points, identify this poem that describes "mere anarchy" being "loosed upon the world," a "rough beast" "slouch[ing] towards Bethlehem to be born" and a "turning and turning in the widening gyre," a poem by Yeats.
The narrator of this poem knows, as "the darkness drops again," that a long wait was "vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle.
“The Second {Coming}”