5/1/2023 0 Comments The falconeer poem![]() It’s a movie about the goings-on of Wall Street in the mid-1980s. *I don't know much about religion and poetry but I enjoyed the poem and thought the connections I saw were interesting enough to share.Wall Street is a movie whose title is self-explanatory. The darkness drops again but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,īabies are mentioned very often throughout the book, like at the end where Fran's son Peter is almost like the start of a new age.Īnd what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? But also this links to the references of crows and how Flagg's control of them to achieve his malcious goals. This immediatly suggests death as a dying body is watched by birds waiting to peck at the corpse. Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The lion body represents his fury, power and threating nature. This clearly relates to the represantation of Randall Flagg as a thin human shell over some sort of pure evil demonic form, which is visible through his eyes. Here "Spiritus Mundi" is reffering to a collective conciousness, this seems similiar to the almost universal dreams of evil (and good) that almost all the characters subconciously share.Ī shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, ![]() The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert This links to the idea that captain trips was viewed intially by some, like Nadine as some heavenly judgement and condemnation of the actions of humanity. Surely some revelation is at hand Surely the Second Coming is at hand. ![]() This contrasts with Randall Flagg's inherent anger and fury at the east and his need for death and destruction. This relates to how many of the good characters like Stu, Larry and Nick have no passion to lead but are forced into that position due to circumstance and their character. The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. While forcing them, like Nick sending Tom Cullen away, to make tough decisions. This references the death of possible billions and the idea that captain trips destroyed all characters physically and mentally, completely upending there life. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned This is also referenced a few times in the book. The idea the destruction of the world occured because of our modern habits that are opposed to nature such as pollution and waste. ![]() Things fall apart the centre cannot hold This suggests humans are unable to hear gods messages to them in modern times and are disconnected from religion, this is referenced a few times throughout the book. ![]() Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer It seems like almost every line has a deep relation to events that occur in the book and I thought this was fascinating so heres my thoughts: My favourite character is definitely Glen Batemen and Tom Cullen, laws Yes! Anyway I reread the poem The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats which is mentioned by Starkey in the beginning of the book. So today I finished reading The Stand today and loved it. ![]()
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