The Second Coming
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- Created on: 11-05-16 17:37
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- The Second Coming
- Context
- each gyre gradually rotates towards a point of maximum expansion, at this point a new gyre starts in the center of the previous. And thus it continues in a never ending line.
- written at a time of fundamental change– contraction of the English gyre (after WW1)– the Irish gyre is starting to expand. – ‘the widening gyre’
- at moments of artist fervor and artistic success, the artist can access a truth from the ether (everything that has ever existed).– it is an unseen truth – in this case: the image of the sphinx – ‘somewhere in the sands of the desert / A shape with lion body and the head of a man’
- also: could be birds about to prey on sphinx – nature about to consume art. c/r ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ – scarecrow trying to scare away nature.
- Links
- ‘Among School Children’ we cannot ‘know the dancer from the dance’, here the falcon and the falconer cannot be united. Violence reaching a peak.
- the ‘tide’ is in a constant state of flux – very ‘Yeatsian’ (everything is mutable and transient)
- ‘And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea;and it became as the blood of a dead man’ (Revelation 16:3)
- ‘The ceremony of innocence is drowned’Yeats believes that innocence is a fabrication born of religion and belief. He is suggesting that the harsh reality of war has killed belief.
- Yeats yet again demonstrating his belief that fervor for any one cause kills you.c/r ‘Easter 1916’: ‘Too long a sacrifice / Can make a stone of the heart’
- Christianity to the stone in the stream – ‘Easter 1916’ ‘the stone’s in the midst of all’
- Links
- also: could be birds about to prey on sphinx – nature about to consume art. c/r ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ – scarecrow trying to scare away nature.
- YEATS on Shelleys "Queen Mab" poem -- all the machineries of poetry are parts of theconvictions of antiquity, and readily become again convictions in minds thatdwell upon them….
- Form
- Free verse reflects the chaos and lack of control being depicted in the poem.
- “The Cold Heaven” were the structure reflects the poets rushing thoughts.
- Links
- ‘Among School Children’ we cannot ‘know the dancer from the dance’, here the falcon and the falconer cannot be united. Violence reaching a peak.
- the ‘tide’ is in a constant state of flux – very ‘Yeatsian’ (everything is mutable and transient)
- ‘And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea;and it became as the blood of a dead man’ (Revelation 16:3)
- ‘The ceremony of innocence is drowned’Yeats believes that innocence is a fabrication born of religion and belief. He is suggesting that the harsh reality of war has killed belief.
- Yeats yet again demonstrating his belief that fervor for any one cause kills you.c/r ‘Easter 1916’: ‘Too long a sacrifice / Can make a stone of the heart’
- Christianity to the stone in the stream – ‘Easter 1916’ ‘the stone’s in the midst of all’
- Links
- “The Cold Heaven” were the structure reflects the poets rushing thoughts.
- Rhetorical question to end - link Leda and the swan
- Caesura
- enjambment
- Free verse reflects the chaos and lack of control being depicted in the poem.
- Quotes
- falcon being turned in the turmoil of the gyre to such an extent that it cannot even hear its creator
- bird of prey now being the victim, shows how everything has gone wrong.
- violence of war has overtaken the purpose of war.
- bird of prey now being the victim, shows how everything has gone wrong.
- "mere anarchy" anarchy is pure and undiluted.
- falcon being turned in the turmoil of the gyre to such an extent that it cannot even hear its creator
- Context
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