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The Second Coming POLL

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Poll Results

OptionVotes
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; 6
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, 3
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? 1
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it 1
The darkness drops again; but now I know 1
Surely some revelation is at hand; 1
A shape with lion body and the head of a man, 1
The best lack all conviction, while the worst 1
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; 1
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, 1
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, 1
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; 1
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. 0
That twenty centuries of stony sleep 0
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert 0
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi 0
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out 0
Surely the Second Coming is at hand. 0
Are full of passionate intensity. 0
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere 0
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, 0
Turning and turning in the widening gyre 0


softie (silby), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 16:45 (nine years ago)

voted Stone Roses

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 16:46 (nine years ago)

the first four lines likely the front runners; would like to call out A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun as worthy of a second glance. The "passionate intensity" couplet being split up into two poll options likely dooms both but I didn't want to editorialize by eliding enjambments in the poll options.

softie (silby), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 16:59 (nine years ago)

things fall apart line has probably seeped into the collective subconscious so much that everyone intuitively gravitates to it (ie this one has a very good chance of winning)

tbh this poem doesn't lend itself to be polled because he's sending all these big abstract ideas through various lines

lion line is what i chose for what it represents, not necessarily because it's a great line

F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 18:28 (nine years ago)

blood-dimmed tide motherfuckers

alternately: gaze blank and pitiless as the sun motherfuckers

the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 18:30 (nine years ago)

the motherfuck cannot hear the motherfucker

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 19:51 (nine years ago)

What rough beast

The Perks of Being a Wall St R (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 19:54 (nine years ago)

Again suffers from being split from slouches but I mean any line of this

The Perks of Being a Wall St R (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 19:55 (nine years ago)

mmmmmm slow thighs

frankie r. failson (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 14:29 (nine years ago)

one month passes...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Saturday, 15 April 2017 00:01 (nine years ago)

Because of the line breaks, many good phrases are distributed across two lines. Of the unbroken lines, my pick:

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Saturday, 15 April 2017 00:05 (nine years ago)

Because of line breaks I have to go with.

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Heavy Doors (jed_), Saturday, 15 April 2017 00:13 (nine years ago)

The darkness drops again; but now I know

flappy bird, Saturday, 15 April 2017 00:47 (nine years ago)

motherfuckers

j., Saturday, 15 April 2017 01:02 (nine years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Sunday, 16 April 2017 00:01 (nine years ago)

three years pass...

Bump

Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 19:16 (five years ago)

The centre might hold tbf

Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 19:19 (five years ago)


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