Poem Review- The Second Coming
The part of the screenshot of the poem:- photo The Gist of the Poem T he Second Coming (1919) by W.B. Yeats is a visionary and apocalyptic poem that captures a world spiraling into chaos, where traditional structures- social, moral, and political- are collapsing. The poem reflects Yeats’s anxieties about a disintegrating civilization and the emergence of a new, potentially terrifying order. The personea juxtaposes the breakdown of societal cohesion with the ominous arrival of a “second coming,” not of Christ but of a monstrous, ambiguous force. Stanza 1. This stanza paints a vivid picture of a world in disarray. The “widening gyre” refers to Yeats’s concept of historical cycles (or “gyres”), where civilizations rise and fall in a spiral motion. The falcon, a symbol of order and control, can no longer hear its falconer, suggesting a loss of guidance and authority. The phrase “things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” is an iconic, encapsulating the collapse of societal structures. ...