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A 4 page analysis of William Butler Yeats’ poem The Second Coming. No additional sources cited.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
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a poem that one can read in many ways and one that is perhaps allusive without doing research into the meaning and the context of the poem. With that in
mind the following paper analyzes the tone of Yeats poem, arguing that it is a poem possessed of a tone that is perhaps depressing and desperate. The poem is analyzed
without research involving the meaning or context of the poem. Yeats The Second Coming The poem begins with the following 4four
lines: "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" (Yeats 1-4).
This introduction clearly speaks of a dire reality, possessed of a tone that is desperate perhaps, and clearly dark in some respect. This is seen through the imagery of a
falcon that cannot hear its owner, and the reality of anarchy that is "loosed" on the world. These are images that present the reader with visions that are not necessarily
pleasant. They are images of things that clearly are falling apart. When things fall apart there is quite often, if not perhaps always, a sense of despair and a confusion
that may speak of a lack of hope or direction. The reader does not really need to know what the poem is
about in order to see this tone that speaks of darkness and despair. It is as though there is no real answer to some problem, no hope and no clear
direction. That is a tone that fills the reader with a clear sense of despair, if not depression as well. The next
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