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To: dave rose who wrote (17899)	4/8/2003 5:58:20 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81190

Dave >Your response was way above my head. My apologies. Actually, I thought the piece which you posted had sufficient poetic language to warrant a poem in response especially since they both say similar things --- although the poem implies that the things/people which Rooney admires are actually the things which are bad. That was intended as my subtle riposte (return blow in fencing). Although I'm not an English scholar, I will try to "interpret" the relevant parts of the poem. It is a very famous poem and actually appropriate to our time. Yeates is saying that things are so bad that the world is falling apart. There is just lawlessness everywhere and no longer any innocence. The supposedly "good" couldn't care less and the "bad" are passionate about their desires. He suggests that the situation is so serious that, after the last Coming 20 centuries ago, there could even be another. Only this time it will be a beast. "Spiritus mundi" translates literally as the spirit of the earth which, I presume, means the "vibes" which he picks up from around the place.