Analyse "The Second Coming" as a pandemic poem.
Hello readers, I am gonna describe "The second coming" as a pandemic poem...
⚫Introduction of the poet
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS:
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others.more
"The Second Coming"by W.B.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 best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
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?
“The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats was published in 1920; is an intense, lyrical Poem of 22 lines. The poem first appeared in The Dial and the Nation in November 1920. Yeats wrote this poem at a time when he saw great social troubles all around him. Not only was the world trying to recover from the effects of World War I, but Ireland also reeled under the effects of the Easter Rising.
The poem begins with the image of a flying Falcon…
With the first line of the poem the question emerges in upr mind that what this Falconer symbolise in the poem ❓
We can say that Hunting with falcons is an activity for upper class people , for the best people in society… The falconer in "The Second Coming" is generally thought to represent Christ. …
Also the "Spiritus Mundi" is the toughest word for me from this poem…
With the answer of this word I want to say that according to Yeats "Spiritus Mundi" is a Latin term… It means that "world spirit" Yeats used this term to describe the collective soul of the universe containing the memories of all time…
Many of us have a question: "Why does the Second Coming end with a question?"
So , The poem ends with a question because we can't know this monster or the punishments it will inflict upon us. A dark future is foreshadowed by the violence of the present…
Then, coming back to our point, how can we describe "The Second Coming" as a pandemic poem…
" The Second Coming" is a poem with the major themes of Violence, prophecy, and meaninglessness . So, we can say that this pandemic time is also regarded with this type of message for us because we also are living with meaningless nature and various types of prophecy today and also we don't have any idea about our future , may it be bright or maybe dark… Nobody can say with a guarantee.
Finally, at the end of the poem, the speaker asks a rhetorical question which amounts to a prophecy that the beast is on its way to Bethlehem, the birthplace of Christ, to be born into the world.
Thus, in today's world also one type of prophecy , that the God will take birth on the earth then maybe the end of this pandemic of covid...
Here's some videos about prophecies of today's time...
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