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the second coming poem

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
The Second Coming (Poem Summary) Contents: Introduction Author Biography Poem Text Themes Style Historical Context Critical Overview Criticism Sources
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The Second Coming', by W.B. Yeats. An amazing poem about the dangers currently facing modern man. This poem is as remarkably clairvoyant as it is remarkably written.
Yeats starts out with the image of a falcon wheeling about in the sky, far away from the falconer who released it. The bird continues to wheel and gyre further and further away
the range of sight, a brazen winged beast which I associated with laughing, ecstatic destruction’, noting that the beast was ‘Afterwards described in my poem "The Second Coming
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) THE SECOND COMING. Turning and turning in The above poem was written in 1919 in the aftermath of the first World War.

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