The Second Coming

The key points, themes and comparisons for "The Second Coming" by Yeats

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1. A key concept in this poem is gyre. What is gyre?

  • An Irish person
  • Life
  • A spiral or circular motion
  • Death
  • A never ending line
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2. The gyre in this poem is a metaphor for what?

  • Nature
  • The success of Irish Nationalists
  • Periods of History
  • Yeats

3. "...moving its slow thighs" is an image of "thighs" being used to present horror being unleashed on civilisation; can be compared to what poem?

  • September 1913
  • The Stolen Child
  • Leda and the Swan
  • Easter 1916
  • Wild Swans at Coole

4. The "falconer" in this poem represents what character?

  • An Irish Nationalist
  • God
  • Mother Nature
  • Yeats
  • The British Government

5. The constant change in rhyme scheme and free verse represents constant chaos.

  • True
  • False

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