Ponder, The Second Coming

"Ponder" begins with the idea of time eating at the remains of "busted statues" and "the stone cringes clinging to the stone", his reason for expressing all of this is he believes time is against him and is slowly running out for all mankind and in this realization of his, Cummings finds that the most important thing to do with time running out is "horizontal business... let us make haste". Obviously, Cummings has no desire for love, just the pleasures it brings.

"The Second Coming" has nothing to do with horizontal business, but a much more sacred arrival of Christ, again. The only downside is this second coming is it is not what the world had been expecting, but they knew it was bound to happen at some point. It seems as though the second coming has brought along armageddon, with God cleansing the world of sin and restarting life again. "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last". Yeats in essence embraces the idea of the second coming, but in addition, instills fear in what it may actually have to offer.