Summary of the poem The Second Coming by W.B.Yeats
The Second Coming - W.B. Yeats The second Coming is a visionary poem written by W.B. Yeats in the year 1920. The poem was inspired by the wide – spread murder and blood shed in Ireland and the great war of 1914 – 1919. The title of this poem suggests the second coming of Christ. During the 20 th century people believed in the destruction of the universe and the second coming. In the first stanza Yeats uses a gyre image to show how civilizations come and go. The image of the falcon and the falconer show how man has lost control over immoral passions. The spirit and mind can no longer control the flesh. The forces of this order and anarchy do not obey the voice of the falconer. The anarchy that is loosed upon the world causes are innocent life to be drowned in a blood – dimmed tide. The center can no longer hold its power over the course of civilization. All these are the signs of second coming. The terrible events marked by great violence anticipate the birth of a ne