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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yourturntoloveit, post: 13681, member: 57&quot;]<u>Kardinalisimo</u>, I can&#039;t help with the artist but here <u>may</u> be a link to his &quot;inspiration&quot; for the subject matter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Analysis of William Butler Yeats&#039; work &quot;The Second Coming.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://users.humboldt.edu/jlwaters/thesecondcoming.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://users.humboldt.edu/jlwaters/thesecondcoming.html" rel="nofollow">http://users.humboldt.edu/jlwaters/thesecondcoming.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the (hopefully) &quot;relevant&quot; part in the poem --</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><b>&quot;The darkness drops again; but now I know</b></font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3"><b>That twenty centuries of stony sleep</b></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><b>Were</b> <b><u>vexed to nightmare</u> by a rocking cradle,</b></font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3"><b>And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,</b></font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3"><b>Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?&quot;&nbsp; (emphasis added)</b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>I find it interesting (although possibly of no significance) that the <u>artist</u> has put the apostrophe <u>after</u> the &quot;54&quot; (in the lower right corner) instead of in front of it <u>IF</u> the 54 signifies the year it was done.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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