greykit.poetry — #apocalypse
-
1925
[t-s-eliot]
The Hollow Men
In five sections the hollow men inhabit death's dream kingdom — paralysed force, gesture without motion — circling the prickly pear as the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
-
1923
[robert-frost]
Fire and Ice
Nine lines that weigh desire against hate as ways for the world to end, and find ice would suffice.
-
1920
[w-b-yeats]
The Second Coming
The widening gyre of history unravels ceremony and conviction; out of Spiritus Mundi a rough beast with lion body and human head slouches toward Bethlehem to be born.
-
1816
[lord-byron]
Darkness
Written in the sunless summer of 1816: the stars go out, men burn their cities for light and then their homes, the last two enemies die of each other's faces, and the universe is left darkness, without a wind.