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Question: Could someone tell me what this poem is saying!?
I know i'm retarded and sleep deprived but here:

The second coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The 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 everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity!.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand!.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A 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 it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds!.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born!? Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
first stanza-
narrator is JADED about life and the fact that "good" is apathetic and "evil" is full of alacrity!.

second stanza-
narrator is on crack/crank/blow/weed, you name it!.
the image of 2nd coming changes into a sphinx and desert images!. some allusion to the birth of jesus 2000 years ago, juxtaposing too closely the Beast vs!. the Lord!. it needs serious work if any "clear" message is meant to be registered!.
good luck!. Www@QuestionHome@Com