Original 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 tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensityI.
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?
It should be remembered that the writer of “The Second Coming” William Butler Yeats was interested in Theosophy as evident from a biographical analysis of his life. He joined the Theosophical Society but the Theosophical Society expelled him in the year 1890. It is because he was not ready to follow its conventions and rules. “The second coming” is a mourning note on his expulsion from that society, however, this is also an appreciation of a chance that life provided to him. Hence, if we consider this poem in an autobiographical sense then all in all it is about an incident and expression of yeat’s emotions.
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.
This line is very much lucid. Without communication, nothing is possible. Even an aeroplane can’t fly in the air without communication and a time comes when it loses control. One can’t hold multiple items at the same time. Letting go may also become a wise decision but if one can’t compromise and insists to hold more than one things at one time, things may scatter. That’s what the poet wants to say. In a spiral, we see things come closer to each other and rotate in the centre but eventually, a time comes when even the centre can’t hold them and they scatter.
A similar example of it is Tornado. We see it grabbing things in its centre but ultimately when it ends, everything scatters without any order. Spiral whether it is a tornado or of water when it ends, it throws things, which are in there, in various random directions. The world in which we are living also suffers from same type of chaos. Nevertheless, the main reason due to which things scatter and the centre can’t hold is lack of communication. We can’t understand each other because we can’t talk and ultimately due to misconceptions, we develop hate instead of love in our hearts, which causes dissipate.
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