the second coming quotes— wb yeats Flashcards
1
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turning
A
“Turning and turning”
2
Q
widening
A
“widening gyre”
3
Q
falcon
A
“The falcon cannot hear the falconer”
4
Q
centre
A
“the centre cannot hold”
5
Q
blood
A
“blood-dimmed tides”
6
Q
ceremony
A
“ceremony of innocence is drowned”
7
Q
mere
A
“Mere anarchy”
8
Q
surely
A
“Surely… at hand/ Surely… at hand”
9
Q
world spirit
A
“Spiritus Mundi”
10
Q
pitiless
A
“pitiless as the sun”
11
Q
moving
A
“moving its slow thighs”
12
Q
desert
A
“indignant desert birds”
13
Q
darkness
A
“darkness drops again”
14
Q
stony
A
“twenty centuries of stony sleep”
15
Q
cradle
A
“rocking cradle”
