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Comment 6 of 26, added on March 11th, 2005 at 7:55 AM.
poetry-No, I have to disagree with your statement that Yeats is some dead guy with poetry that tortures people.
The only reason why poets like Yeats exist is to warn people of what may happen. In this poem when he is try to tell the world not to continue as it is or we'll be fighting with sticks and stones in the 4th world war which Einstein said many years back.
By the way, if you think that a dead man's work is usless, think of all the stuff you learnt. Be it Pythagora's theoem or the English language we freely converse in, it was someone who came up with it and has been dead for centuries. I hope you get a gist of what i'm trying to convey.
Z0oming Out!
ZoomBeast
Comment 5 of 26, added on February 28th, 2005 at 4:29 AM.
yeats is the most complicated poet ever the meanings behind his words are just too complicated and numerous for my liking no one should be subjected to the torture of having to study yeats his poems should be read by people who appreciate his work not students stretched to breaking point with stess already without some complicated dead person making life even harder its craaaazy.
poetry-NO from Australia
Comment 4 of 26, added on January 27th, 2005 at 7:10 AM.
In my point of view, Yeats was "asking" if it was the second coming of the devil, not Jesus. This is simply because of all the chaos the world went through. Yeats must have been very depressed about the World Wars and the Great Depression.
(He lived through WW1 and the Great Depression as a kid. Later on in his old age, he died just before WW2 ended.)
ZoomBeast
Comment 3 of 26, added on January 19th, 2005 at 11:27 PM.
I'd take a dimmer view of the vision presented in Yates' poem. Remember that the world had just seen the first World War, a flu epidemic of enormous proportions, and political turmoil. Everything was falling apart, and he was trying to show how impossible it seemed to reconcile it. He was proved right--things got substantially worse before they got better. The only comfort I can find in this poem is that others have seen and felt the anguish of a world seemingly ripping itself at the seams. Misery loves company, and there's plenty of both.
Mairead from United States
Comment 2 of 26, added on December 26th, 2004 at 5:41 PM.
For me, this poem is about breaking away from the 'ceremony of innocence' and all the 'worst' people who are "full of" misdirected "passionate intesity". Its about comming to terms with your purpose in life no matter how hard it may be to break free. You may heave felt lonley in the "desert" staring up for some direction; you may not know what you have to do, but you recognize the need for a "second comming" and you are determined to do so. "its hour come round at last" It's time for a rebirth (...bethelhem to be born) Jesus birthplace /muhammad recived messages from god) metaphore.
C-RaD from United States
Comment 1 of 26, added on November 13th, 2004 at 12:15 AM.
Yeats actually saw the end of the world, and wrote about it. Metaphorically and physically. Much like C.S. Lewis saw the garden of eden and wrote about it in his book "Perelandra".
Brian Harte from United States
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poetry-No, I have to disagree with your statement that Yeats is some dead guy with poetry that tortures people.
The only reason why poets like Yeats exist is to warn people of what may happen. In this poem when he is try to tell the world not to continue as it is or we'll be fighting with sticks and stones in the 4th world war which Einstein said many years back.
By the way, if you think that a dead man's work is usless, think of all the stuff you learnt. Be it Pythagora's theoem or the English language we freely converse in, it was someone who came up with it and has been dead for centuries. I hope you get a gist of what i'm trying to convey.
Z0oming Out!
ZoomBeast