Ever since I first read "The Second Coming" by Yeats, parts of it have stamped themselves in the recesses of my brain and memory. Randomly I find the stanzas, the phrases, reverberating inside my skull, and with no end in sight I praise it more and more.
It's an imperative for literature to make you realize things that stand out plainly infront of your cloudy eyes. .
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"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;" .
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There are numerous interpretations for the poem, but the one that stands out for me is about loss of innocence and hope. A loss akin to imprisonment so total that we, the prisoners aren't even aware of the cage.
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"The falcon cannot hear the falconer;"
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Greed, manipulation,ungratefulness,indifference, heedlessness, antipathy, selfishness, self-centeredness, envy. After all the seeds you sow, the deeds that you bestow, do you ask yourself what does it matter? What does anything matter? All these million little deaths, before they finally bury you.
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. "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" .
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Before all is said and done, I hope we can reflame our souls with the lost innocence and hope. I hope we can see the light in the neverending abyss, I hope we can feel again, nestled in the void.
I hope that someday soon, we, the rough beasts, slouch towards Bethlehem to be born again. .
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