The meter is an iambic pentameter, the most common, and was the preferred meter in all of Shakespeare’s plays. “The Second Coming” is written in blank verse, which means it has “a consistent meter but no rhyme scheme” ("The Second Coming: Rhyme, Form & Meter").Surely some revelation is at hand Surely the Second Coming is at hand.The Second Coming! Hardly are those words outWhen a vast image out of Spiritus MundiTroubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desertA 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 itReel shadows of the indignant desert birds.The darkness drops again but now I knowThat twenty centuries of stony sleepWere vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
BROWN PENNY BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS FULL
“The Second Coming” Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe 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 everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity. This poem is interesting in understanding poetry because the way the penny symbolizes love and its complexity is very poetic. I was drawn to this poem because I also agree that the concept of love is very complex." For he would be thinking of love/Till the stars had run away/And the shadows eaten the moon.", the speaker is saying that love is very complicated and how one can speculate love for days on and on but never truly figure out the concept of 'love'. In the lines, " O love is the crooked thing,/There is nobody wise enough /to find out all that is in it," the speakers is expressing that love is very complicated and no one can ever truly figure out love. By the line "Ah, penny, brown penny,/I am looped in the loops of her hair", it shows a sense of distress over being so entranced by his lover. Meaning? In these lines, "'Go and love, go and love, young man,/If the lady be young and fair.'/Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,/I am looped in the loops of her hair." the speaker is showing how he is infatuated and fascinated by his lover. The penny symbolizes the chance one takes with love. When it says, "wherefore I threw a penny", it is assumed that the speaker is throwing a penny into a fountain/wishing well and is seeking an answer to his mystery. He wonders if he is too young or too old for love. It also shows that the speaker is contemplating whether 'loving' is the right thing for him. In the lines " 'I am too young,/'And then, 'I am old enough'/ Wherefore I threw a penny/To find out if I might love.", shows that the speaker is wishing for and taking a chance with love. In this poem, the speaker is scrutinizing the complications of love. "I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,'And then, 'I am old enough' Wherefore I threw a pennyTo find out if I might love.'Go and love, go and love, young man,If the lady be young and fair.'Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,I am looped in the loops of her hair.O love is the crooked thing,There is nobody wise enoughTo find out all that is in it,For he would be thinking of loveTill the stars had run awayAnd the shadows eaten the moon.Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,One cannot begin it too soon. "Īnalysisby (SamihaSyeda) The poem "The Brown Penny" by William Butler Yeats is a poem about love.His poetry isn’t read as much by common people as much is used for inspiration by other writers such as Máirtín Ó Direáin and songwriter Mike Scott.Yeats finally married a woman named Georgie Hyde-Lees and had two children. After the death of MacBride, Yeats proposed to Gonne once more, but got rejected once more. Gonne married a man named, Major John MacBride, a man who Yeats had deep hatred for. Yeats proposed to her four times but got rejected all four times. In 1889, he met his first love, Maud Gonne.
Due to lack of money to pay for tuition, he went back to Dublin and enrolled into Erasmus Smith High School. He was a very mediocre student and a terrible speller. After a short lived art career, Yeats decided to follow his passion of writing poetry so he enrolled at the Godolphin School in west London. Born in Dublin, Yeats studied Law and then later art in school due to his artistic background in his family.William Butler Yeats The Biography “Brown Penny” “The Second Coming
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