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最初由 好大的馒头 发布
英文不是很好,看不大懂,=.=''
不过抱着学习的目的,已经把它存到硬盘上了,有时间慢慢细细的读读楼主的作
品...o_O''
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第一, 这不是楼主的作品, 这是著名诗人William Butler Yeats写的
The title is "The Second Coming"
Yeats, in his quasi-mystical philosophy of cyclic human history saw
Mankind as moving from a period of Christianity to one Paganism.
The first eight lines of the poem offer evidence of this change as man (the falcon)
moves away from God (the falconer), spinning away in a widening revolution.
Yeats calls out that the Second Coming of Christ must be near since the world
is so drowned in earthly sin, but as he does this he (metaphorically or otherwise) sees out of the Spirit of the World (as opposed to the Holy Spirit) the vision of the Sphinx, a symbol of paganism, awakening after two thousand years of "sleep" since the advent of Christianity; awakened,
paradoxically, by the calmness and purity of the Christian soul.
The final two lines of the poem are not a "silver lining", an offer to make up our own minds as Mellerowicz suggested, but a rhetorical question:
Why would paganism need to be born among men as Christ was 2 millennia ago when it already exists, only needing to be awakened within humanity? The Second Coming, Yeats realizes, is not a coming of Christ as we assumed, but a reawakening of man's animal nature
(the body of a lion) expressed in paganism.
Furthermore, this poem is not a ringing in of the Apocalypse, there is no mention that the world is ending, only entering another phase in its history.