Response to `The Second Coming` from William Butler Yeats

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Second Coming by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats ' poem Second Coming is a short two stanza poem that is political in nature and uses Biblical and mythological allusions to explain the author 's message . This would be a personal interpretation of the poem

The first noticeable thing about the poem is the capitalization of the first word of the first line . It may be just a style that Yeats likes to use in his poems or it may be his way

of emphasizing the word to exaggerate its significance . TURNING and turning in the widening gyre (line 1 ) opens up the poem to a confused state . The falcon cannot hear the falconer (2 ) because of all the confusion that the turning has caused . In a deeper and historically based meaning , line 2 might be a rebellious behavior since the poem is written right after a time when revolutions all around the world happened .There is a good chance that Yeats was referring to the Russian revolution when he wrote this poem . The blood-dimmed tide is loosed and everywhere (5 . I can only think of the spread of communism by the Soviet whose color was red A sense of pessimism can be traced from the last two lines of the first stanza . It probably meant that nobody was willing to stand up , those who have the power to , don 't do anything while the oppressors are doing everything to remain in power...