The Second Coming

Question 1

First Two Verses?

Answer 1

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Question 2

Things fall…

Answer 2

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

Question 3

ceremony

The blood-dimmed…

Answer 3

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

Question 4

while the worst

The best…

Answer 4

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Question 5

Surely some…

Answer 5

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

Question 6

harldly + vast

The Second…

Answer 6

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

Question 7

Troubles my…

Answer 7

Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,

Question 8

thighs

A gaze…

Answer 8

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it

Question 9

drops

Reel shadows…

Answer 9

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know

Question 10

cradle

That twenty…

Answer 10

That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,

Question 11

And what rough…

Answer 11

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?