🔵 The Second Coming Poem by William Butler Yeats Summary Analysis Second Coming William Butler Yeats

The Second Coming Poem by William Butler Yeats Summary Analysis Second Coming William Butler Yeats
Written in 1919
by W.B.Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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'The ceremony of innocence is drowned'...true indeed .👍

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One of the great masterpieces of world literature. And yet a remarkably easy poem to understand, for those open to its message.The poem's theme is the consequences of secularism and the rejection of Judeo-Christian values. We, humanity, are the falcons who in a post-religious world have distanced and cut off ourselves from the falconer, God. With what result? A gradual then sudden descent into madness, irrationality, and cruelty under the guise of a new Age of Enlightenment. This is exactly what happened in the Russian Revolution and the subsequent Soviet totalitarian state. And this is where the West is heading today. Dostoevksy issued similar warnings 50 years before Yeats. Bonus points: Cruelty and mayhem is the norm in human history. 2,000 years of biblical values was the aberration that more or less held such evil at bay. Now that we have jettisoned those values, life will return to its primitive natural dark ways.

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Just a note that you may find that those same Christian values Yeats notes did not protect certain cultures from evil.

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Thanks, SIr! He refers to the WWI..but he didn´t witness the WWII...What powerful imagery of despair, what paralels with our world!

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