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29th November, 2009

POETRY & PROSE

 

AT THE PUB

Sunday 29th November, 2pm

Graphic by Anton Poon - thanks Anton!

PREPARE YOUR PERFORMANCE FOR POETRY AND PROSE

AT THE PUB

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

For our last readings for the year we are using the poem by William Butler Yeats The Second Coming.

Christmas is interesting for all and not just the religious in our culture.

Bethlehem of course, makes possible Calvary and Armageddon.

What does Christmas mean to you with this in mind?

This month the theme is open around the theme of the Yeats poem and the meaning of Christmas in general.



William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

THE SECOND COMING

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
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;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?



For more information on Poetry and Prose at the Pub call Lorese Vera on 0421 599 112

To check the theme for the month contact us below:

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