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The Second Coming and Symbolism
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- Suggests that while society has felt relative peacefulness, they have been oblivious to the doom coming upon them.
- gyre
- falcon
- a line that references
the sphinx
- anarchy
Find and Annotate:
- blood-dimmed tide
- Second Coming
- Spiritus Mundi
- sleep
What is a SYMBOL?
- An image, character, object, or action that stands for something beyond itself or gives rise to a number of associations.
SLEEP
GYRE
"The Second
Coming"
- Stands from the alternation between two historical cycles: one characterized by order and growth, the other by chaos and decay.
- Comparable to the Chinese concepts of Yin and Yang.
- Yeats had an interest in the occult.
- "soul of the world"...spirit world of images and symbols that Yeats believed to have been traditionally available to the most perceptive people.
- Yeats thought that the best symbols couldn’t ever be fully explained in words.
FALCON
SPIRITUS MUNDI
- Associated violence, but not the kind of uncontrolled, chaotic violence that characterized WWI.
- According to the Bible, falcons are present at the apocalypse.
- Second Coming = Christ's return to Earth/apocalypse
- Anarchy = Satan's rule on Earth before Christ comes back
- Blood-dimmed tide = deadly flood
SPHINX
- Sphinx, located in Egypt.
- Christ tempted in the desert by Satan and Jews held as slaves.
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