Plato and Dante in a belief that symbols would make his poetry more understandable rather than difficult to comprehend . In Second Coming , the image of falcon is introduced . The falcon stands for intellect and heart stands for feelings as falconer with the image of Sphinx is shown as reconnection of these two components (heart and intellect . In the second stanza Yeats mentions , `` a revelation is at hand , where Yeats himself becomes the prophet who predicts the second coming . Similarly...











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