Comments on: The Second Coming http://www.clareified.com/2009/11/18/the-second-coming/ It's been so long since I've been fine; I'm just trying to see the bottom of this bottle of wine Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:01:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Pearatty http://www.clareified.com/2009/11/18/the-second-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-275188 Pearatty Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:57:54 +0000 http://www.clareified.com/?p=9447#comment-275188 Ooh, some internet research reveals that I probably meant a Dali/Bruegel/Bosch-esque desert landscape. Ooh, some internet research reveals that I probably meant a Dali/Bruegel/Bosch-esque desert landscape.

]]> By: Pearatty http://www.clareified.com/2009/11/18/the-second-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-275186 Pearatty Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:53:38 +0000 http://www.clareified.com/?p=9447#comment-275186 Yeah, I always read this one as saying we're so messed up, the coming of the anti-christ is more likely than the second coming. This really is the best line for thinking: "The best lack all conviction while the worst /Are full of passionate intensity." The best line for feeling: "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,/Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" Angela, I had the problem of visualizing anything with this poem too, when I first read it. Eventually, I started picturing a weird distorted Dali/Bruegel-esqe desert landscape, with cracks opening up in the earth and people and demons all running around like headless chickens and the Sphinx coming alive and something big and scary forming and making a move. Good one --- one of my favorites. Yeah, I always read this one as saying we’re so messed up, the coming of the anti-christ is more likely than the second coming.

This really is the best line for thinking: “The best lack all conviction while the worst /Are full of passionate intensity.”

The best line for feeling: “And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,/Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”

Angela, I had the problem of visualizing anything with this poem too, when I first read it. Eventually, I started picturing a weird distorted Dali/Bruegel-esqe desert landscape, with cracks opening up in the earth and people and demons all running around like headless chickens and the Sphinx coming alive and something big and scary forming and making a move.

Good one — one of my favorites.

]]> By: Annika http://www.clareified.com/2009/11/18/the-second-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-275178 Annika Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:25:05 +0000 http://www.clareified.com/?p=9447#comment-275178 Yeah this is a tough one. But it's necessary just so you can know where all those "slouching towards..." references come from. Nice KanyeWestism btw! Get well soon babe! Yeah this is a tough one. But it’s necessary just so you can know where all those “slouching towards…” references come from. Nice KanyeWestism btw!

Get well soon babe!

]]> By: Fisch http://www.clareified.com/2009/11/18/the-second-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-275066 Fisch Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:06:58 +0000 http://www.clareified.com/?p=9447#comment-275066 Yea. I ate Doris. Yea. I ate Doris.

]]> By: Dawn Summers http://www.clareified.com/2009/11/18/the-second-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-274926 Dawn Summers Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:29:20 +0000 http://www.clareified.com/?p=9447#comment-274926 Wicked, huh? Maybe it's fisch making a return? Wicked, huh? Maybe it’s fisch making a return?

]]> By: VinNay http://www.clareified.com/2009/11/18/the-second-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-274916 VinNay Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:18:12 +0000 http://www.clareified.com/?p=9447#comment-274916 Something better this way comes? It's a slouching, rough beast. More like something wicked this way comes. Something better this way comes? It’s a slouching, rough beast. More like something wicked this way comes.

]]> By: Dawn Summers http://www.clareified.com/2009/11/18/the-second-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-274867 Dawn Summers Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:10:10 +0000 http://www.clareified.com/?p=9447#comment-274867 Heh, all you need to do is memorize one line from each poem and you can successfully fake your way in most circles. With this one it's "the center cannot hold" or "things fall apart." Heh, all you need to do is memorize one line from each poem and you can successfully fake your way in most circles. With this one it’s “the center cannot hold” or “things fall apart.”

]]> By: Fisch http://www.clareified.com/2009/11/18/the-second-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-274865 Fisch Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:56:36 +0000 http://www.clareified.com/?p=9447#comment-274865 That's one of my fave poems as well. For some reason, the words "its hour come round at last" brings up such a feeling of evil dread and foreboding within me...love it. That’s one of my fave poems as well. For some reason, the words “its hour come round at last” brings up such a feeling of evil dread and foreboding within me…love it.

]]> By: Angela http://www.clareified.com/2009/11/18/the-second-coming/comment-page-1/#comment-274844 Angela Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:49:11 +0000 http://www.clareified.com/?p=9447#comment-274844 Wow, even with all your help I just DO NOT GET poetry. That jumble of words forms no image in my mind. I must be missing that part of the brain. I wonder what I got instead? I'm pretty sure it's extreme karaoke skills. Even so, I still look forward to your poetry Wednesdays because I have faith that one day, I will get it. (Not bloody likely.) Wow, even with all your help I just DO NOT GET poetry. That jumble of words forms no image in my mind. I must be missing that part of the brain. I wonder what I got instead? I’m pretty sure it’s extreme karaoke skills.

Even so, I still look forward to your poetry Wednesdays because I have faith that one day, I will get it. (Not bloody likely.)

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