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Before the full moon of history, the subjective principle holds sway, and men seek fulfillment in themselves, in mastery of thought and action. In the poem, 'The Gyres', for example, we need to know only its barest outlines. In 'The Man and the Echo' it becomes 'Rocky Voice'. This is too simple a statement, for much detail is possible. The revelation which approaches will however take its character from the contrary movement of the interior gyre. In Yeats’ mystical/philosophical theory of the world, in the scheme he outlined in his book "A Vision," the gyres are intersecting cones, one widening out while the other focuses into a single point. William Butler Yeats wrote “The Second Coming” in 1919, soon after the end of World War I, known at the time as “The Great War” because it was the biggest war yet fought and “The War to End All Wars” because it was so horrific that its participants dearly hoped it would be the last war. These spiraling motions are the gyres. This view is true also of history, for the end of an age, which always receives the revelation of the character of the next age, is represented by the coming of one gyre to its place of greatest expansion and of the other to that of its greatest contraction. “The Second Coming,” of course, refers to the Christian prophecy in the Bible’s Book of Revelation that Jesus will return to reign over Earth in the end times. The Merchant of Venice: Critical Analysis of Shylock's Character; Shylock A Nation in A Man, Ozymandias by Percy Shelley: A Critical Note on the Predetermined Structure of the Poem, A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day by John Dryden: Analysis & Background, Marianna & The Last Duchess: The Feminine Presence, The Faerie Queene: A Critical Note on the Structure & Allegory. <<
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The rape of Leda by a god in the shape of a swan is thus reversed in the annunciation of the dove to Mary. 10 0 obj
All our scientific, democratic, fact-accumulating heterogeneous civilization belongs to the outward gyre and prepares not the continuance of itself but the revelation as in a lightning flash, though in a flash that will not strike only in one place, and will for a time be constantly repeated, of the civilization that must slowly take its place. 4 0 obj
In this poem, Yeats talks about the coming of a new spirit. History is not a one-way trip into chaos, and the passage between the gyres not the end of the world altogether, but a transition to a new world — or to another dimension. /Parent 2 0 R
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The poem uses Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse and Second Coming to allegorically describe the atmosphere of post-war Europe. Dreaming of Xanadu: A Guide to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Kubla Khan”, Singing the Old Songs: Traditional and Literary Ballads, Joan Didion, Essayist and Author Who Defined New Journalism, A Guide to Wordsworth's Themes of Memory and Nature in 'Tintern Abbey', Biography of Chinua Achebe, Author of "Things Fall Apart", What Is Enjambment? But most of Yeats's poetry can be approached without worrying too much about this doctrine. “The Second Coming,” of course, refers to the Christian prophecy in the Bible’s Book of Revelation that Jesus will return to reign over Earth in the end times. It was also not long since the Easter Rising in Ireland, a rebellion that was brutally suppressed that was the topic of Yeats’ earlier poem "Easter 1916," and the Russian Revolution of 1917, which overthrew the long rule of the czars and was accompanied by its full share of lingering chaos. The first stanza of “The Second Coming” is a powerful description of an apocalypse, opening with the indelible image of the falcon circling ever higher, in ever-widening spirals, so far that “The falcon cannot hear the falconer.” The centrifugal impetus described by those circles in the air tends to chaos and disintegration — “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold ” — and more than chaos and disintegration, to war — “The blood-dimmed tide” — to fundamental doubt — “The best lack all conviction” — and to the rule of misguided evil — "The worst / Are full of passionate intensity.”. The times of maximum historical turbulence are those where the gyres reverse their motions. /Type /Page
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