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لـولي · 2012- 12- 30

السلام عليكم

هذا شرح بسيط لها و ان شاء الله تساعدكم

Yeats incorporates his ideas on the gyre - a historical cycle of about 2000 years. He first published this idea in his writing 'a vision' which predicted the expected anarchy which would be released around 2000 years after the birth of Christ. Indeed, the whole poem is an antithesis to the reality of Christianity. The poem also served as the inspiration for the name of the 1958 novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. According to some interpretations "the best" referred to the traditional ruling classes of Europe who were unable to protect the traditional culture of Europe from materialistic mass movements. The concluding lines also refer to Yeats' belief that history was cyclic, and that his age represented the end of the cycle that began with the rise of Christianity.

Yeats was a master of the visual symbol. In the poem, "The Second Coming", by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, the emotional element and the symbols that drive this emotional element are critical to consider upon first reading it.

The first image with which we are presented in the poem is an image of disaster; a falcon cannot hear the call of safety, and begins to spiral wider and wider, more out of control. "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold". What is the centre of the spiral? Yeats could be referring to a society out of control. "Mere anarchy" could mean a couple of things; perhaps nothing more than confusion, or a confusion that was once held back by civilization, but is now free, and ironically, binding at the same time. When some commit anarchy, others are bound by the consequences of the anarchist's actions and are paradoxically not free to be anarchic themselves.
Other images include seas full of blood and drowning. Those who are "the best" of this society are apathetic, and those who are "the worst" are in your face with "passionate intensity". Yeats is picturing in this poem a society turned upside-down and headed toward self-destruction and chaos.
In the midst of such conditions, it is man's nature to look for change. Yeats is living in anticipation of a great change in the poem, which he encapsulated in the Christian concept of "the second coming". The phrase, "the second coming", stands as a symbol of its own, gathered from the history and consciousness of humankind back to the beginning of recorded time, referred to in the poem as "Spiritus Mundi".

However, Yeats' own feelings of such a change are ambivalent, to say the least. Even if change is good, it is uncomfortable. Yeats himself points to an image of a fearsome creature, part man and part animal, that moves inexorably slowly towards its destination, and will not die for the "indignant desert birds".
The lion with the head of the man is an interesting image in his poem, almost seeming to come straight out of the Book of Revelation in the Bible, where such images abound. The lion has the predatory power, with royal strength and authority, and the head (meaning the intellect) is that of a man, but a man with "a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun". There is no love, no personification that we can be drawn to or admire. We feel somehow repelled from this inhuman thing that moves closer and closer, like death. There will be a death when it arrives to its destination; the death of old ideas, and the destiny of man shot in another direction, from which it may then spiral again in yet another "widening gyre".

Nature cannot stop this change. Time cannot stop it. Nothing can stop what's "slouching towards Bethlehem to be born". Would Yeats prefer the unconsciousness of "stony sleep" to the "nightmare" created by the "rocking cradle", which perhaps represents a newness that will cause the vexation of the old ways? At least he is familiar with "stony sleep", or the way things have always been.
Yeats' use of rich and vivid symbols in this poem creates a feeling of disaster, turning to dread at the thought of facing a change, even when such change could be an improvement.

2012- 12- 30	#1431
لـولي أكـاديـمـي نــشـط الملف الشخصي: رقم العضوية : 58828 تاريخ التسجيل: Mon Sep 2010 المشاركات: 116 الـجنــس : أنـثـى عدد الـنقـاط : 50 مؤشر المستوى: 64 بيانات الطالب: الكلية: كلية الآداب بالدمام الدراسة: انتظام التخصص: English المستوى: المستوى الخامس	رد: last year......old plan group السلام عليكم هذا شرح بسيط لها و ان شاء الله تساعدكم Yeats incorporates his ideas on the gyre - a historical cycle of about 2000 years. He first published this idea in his writing 'a vision' which predicted the expected anarchy which would be released around 2000 years after the birth of Christ. Indeed, the whole poem is an antithesis to the reality of Christianity. The poem also served as the inspiration for the name of the 1958 novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. According to some interpretations "the best" referred to the traditional ruling classes of Europe who were unable to protect the traditional culture of Europe from materialistic mass movements. The concluding lines also refer to Yeats' belief that history was cyclic, and that his age represented the end of the cycle that began with the rise of Christianity. Yeats was a master of the visual symbol. In the poem, "The Second Coming", by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, the emotional element and the symbols that drive this emotional element are critical to consider upon first reading it. The first image with which we are presented in the poem is an image of disaster; a falcon cannot hear the call of safety, and begins to spiral wider and wider, more out of control. "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold". What is the centre of the spiral? Yeats could be referring to a society out of control. "Mere anarchy" could mean a couple of things; perhaps nothing more than confusion, or a confusion that was once held back by civilization, but is now free, and ironically, binding at the same time. When some commit anarchy, others are bound by the consequences of the anarchist's actions and are paradoxically not free to be anarchic themselves. Other images include seas full of blood and drowning. Those who are "the best" of this society are apathetic, and those who are "the worst" are in your face with "passionate intensity". Yeats is picturing in this poem a society turned upside-down and headed toward self-destruction and chaos. In the midst of such conditions, it is man's nature to look for change. Yeats is living in anticipation of a great change in the poem, which he encapsulated in the Christian concept of "the second coming". The phrase, "the second coming", stands as a symbol of its own, gathered from the history and consciousness of humankind back to the beginning of recorded time, referred to in the poem as "Spiritus Mundi". However, Yeats' own feelings of such a change are ambivalent, to say the least. Even if change is good, it is uncomfortable. Yeats himself points to an image of a fearsome creature, part man and part animal, that moves inexorably slowly towards its destination, and will not die for the "indignant desert birds". The lion with the head of the man is an interesting image in his poem, almost seeming to come straight out of the Book of Revelation in the Bible, where such images abound. The lion has the predatory power, with royal strength and authority, and the head (meaning the intellect) is that of a man, but a man with "a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun". There is no love, no personification that we can be drawn to or admire. We feel somehow repelled from this inhuman thing that moves closer and closer, like death. There will be a death when it arrives to its destination; the death of old ideas, and the destiny of man shot in another direction, from which it may then spiral again in yet another "widening gyre". Nature cannot stop this change. Time cannot stop it. Nothing can stop what's "slouching towards Bethlehem to be born". Would Yeats prefer the unconsciousness of "stony sleep" to the "nightmare" created by the "rocking cradle", which perhaps represents a newness that will cause the vexation of the old ways? At least he is familiar with "stony sleep", or the way things have always been. Yeats' use of rich and vivid symbols in this poem creates a feeling of disaster, turning to dread at the thought of facing a change, even when such change could be an improvement.