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: somewhere in sands of the desert
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
Reel 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?
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葉慈這首詩真的寫的很棒^^
過了快一百年,把詩的內容和精神聚焦投注在現在的社會中還是十分貼切
所謂的The secondcoming指的到底是什麼具體的事物嗎?其實不是
最後一句其實暗示的是一個巨大的改變
一種新的價值觀的出現,或許是源自於物極必反的道理
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
當我們開始憂心文化的多元性逐漸被強勢的文明一統的同時
或許不願妥協的一群人更能夠在這樣的環境下發展出成熟而叛逆的次文化
當這些best lack看似在conviction的同時
或許正醞釀著更大的爆發也說不定
who knows~
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