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The Second Coming. By William Butler 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 SECOND COMING. 1 Turning and turning in the widening gyre 1 The falcon cannot hear the falconer; 2 Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; 3 Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, 4 The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere 5 The ceremony of innocence is drowned; 6 The best lack all conviction, while the worst 7 Are full of ...
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.
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The Second Coming. W. B. Yeats. 1865 –. 1939. 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 New Testament describes the Second Coming as being preceded by the appearance of beasts which persecute the faithful. Yeats subverts the reader’s expectations by portraying the arrival of a pre-Christian, “pitiless” monster instead of biblical beasts or the expected forgiveness of Christ.
LitCharts. Get the entire guide to “The Second Coming” as a printable PDF. Download. The Full Text of “The Second Coming” 1 Turning and turning in the widening gyre. 2 The falcon cannot hear the falconer; 3 Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; 4 Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, 5 The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere.
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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: a waste of desert sand; 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 Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
