{"id":1884,"date":"2022-01-26T08:04:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T07:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2022-02-01T10:54:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T09:54:54","slug":"the-second-coming-w-b-yeats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/the-second-coming-w-b-yeats\/","title":{"rendered":"The second coming (W.B.Yeats)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1883\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/The_second_coming_W.B.Yeats_.jpg\" alt=\"The_second_coming_W.B.Yeats.jpg\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/The_second_coming_W.B.Yeats_.jpg 1900w, https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/The_second_coming_W.B.Yeats_-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/The_second_coming_W.B.Yeats_-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/The_second_coming_W.B.Yeats_-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/The_second_coming_W.B.Yeats_-1568x1176.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Turbinando nel cerchio che si allarga<br \/>\nIl falcone non pu\u00f2 sentire il falconiere<br \/>\nLe cose cadono a pezzi, il centro non pu\u00f2 tenere.<br \/>\nPura anarchia dilaga nel mondo<br \/>\nLa marea insanguinata s&#8217;innalza e dovunque<br \/>\nLa cerimonia dell&#8217;innocenza \u00e8 annegata.<br \/>\nI migliori mancano di ogni convinzione mentre i peggiori<br \/>\nSono pieni di intensit\u00e0 appassionata.<\/p>\n<p>Certo \u00e8 imminente una rivelazione<br \/>\nCerto \u00e8 imminente la seconda venuta<br \/>\nLa seconda venuta! Difficile pronunciare queste parole<br \/>\nUn ampio squarcio fuor dallo Spiritus Mundi<br \/>\nTormenta la mia visione;<br \/>\nDa qualche parte nelle sabbie del deserto<br \/>\nUna forma con il corpo di leone e la testa di uomo<br \/>\nBianco lo sguardo e senza piet\u00e0 come il sole<br \/>\nMuove le sue cosce lente. Tutto intorno<br \/>\nSpirali fosche di uccelli del deserto.<\/p>\n<p>La tenebra discende: adesso intendo<br \/>\nChe venti secoli di granitico sonno<br \/>\nErano condannati all&#8217;incubo da una culla ondeggiante<br \/>\nE quale bestia orrenda, ora che alfine \u00e8 venuta la sua ora<br \/>\nStriscia verso Betlemme per venire al mondo?<\/p>\n<p><em>William Butler Yeats<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>* * *<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Turning and turning in the widening gyre<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> The falcon cannot hear the falconer;<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> The ceremony of innocence is drowned;<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> The best lack all conviction, while the worst<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> Are full of passionate intensity.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Surely some revelation is at hand;<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> Surely the Second Coming is at hand.<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> A shape with lion body and the head of a man,<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>The darkness drops again but now I know<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> That twenty centuries of stony sleep<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em> Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">William Butler Yeats<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[207],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foto-pensieri","tag-william-b-yeats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}