Lesson 4- The Second Coming (Social).pdf

The Second Coming Analysis

1. welcome!

3. How to Play?
•Readthegroupofunrelatedwords
•Transformthemintorealphrasesbefore
timerunsout.
Example:
SAD HEARD DAY
becomes
SATURDAY

4. BEE BLINK CAL MET A POOR

5. BIBLICAL METAPHOR

6. EASE PINKS IN CREEK
ME TOO LOW CHIE

7. SPHINX IN GREEK
MYTHOLOGY

8. CHEESE US FRIES

9. JESUS CHRIST

10. APE POO CALL LEAFS

11. APOCALYPSE

12. DUH CHECK OWNED CALMING

13. THE SECOND COMING

14. The Second
Coming
William Butler Yeats

15. Author
01
Who is William Butler Yeats?
The Concepts of the Poem
02
Concepts, Themes, and
Techniques
The Second Coming
03
Line by Line Analysis
Takeaways
04
What have you learned?
Table of Contents

16. Author
01.
Who is William Butler Yeats?

17. William Butler Yeats
BorninDublin,Irelandisoneofthe
foremostfiguresof20
th
Centuryliterature.
InDecember1923,Yeatswasawardedthe
NobelPrizeinLiterature,“forhis
inspiredpoetry,whichgivesexpression
tothespiritofawholenation.”Very
nationalisticandinvolvedwiththeCeltic
Revival-amovementagainstthecultural
influencesofEnglishruleinIreland
duringtheVictorianperiod–hesoughtto
promotethespiritofIreland’snative
heritageandwasconsideredthe
standard-bearerofIrishnationalismand
Irishculturalindependence.

18. William Butler Yeats
Hislife-longinterestin
mysticismandtheoccultwas
showninhisworksandhis
uninhibitedstancein
advancinghisidiosyncratic
philosophy,andthesemaybe
gleanedfromhis“The
SecondComing”whichwas
writtenin1919inthe
aftermathofthefirstWorld
War.

19. The Concepts of the Poem
02.
Concepts, Themes,Techniques

20. What are the Concepts of the poem?
•The Sphinx of Greek Mythology
•The Second Coming of Christ
•Philosophy of A Vision

21. Themes
•Despair about Modernism
•Order vs Chaos

22. Techniques Used:
•Thepoemisdividedintotwo
stanzasandwiththeoddrhyme,
butfarmoreresemblingfree-verse
Modernvoicethantheother
poems.
•Interestingly,todescribethisscene
ofchaosheusesfirstpersonas
thoughheisaneyewitness.

23. Techniques Used:
•Apocalypticimagerye.g.“The
blood-redtideisdimmed”andthe
Metaphor“Theceremonyof
innocenceisdrowned”arebiblical
allusionstoNoah’sfloodwhich
drownedthewicked.Thediction
“revelation”and“SecondComing”
isalsobiblical.

24. Techniques Used:
•Imageryofbrokenorcollapsing
gyresalsoalludestoYeats’own
bookAVisionandhisideathatthe
modernageisuncivilizedand
chaotice.g.“Thefalconcannot
hearthefalconer;Thingsfallapart;
thecentercannothold.”

25. Techniques Used:
•Yeatscontraststhecivilizedpast
andtheChristianage,withthe
biblicalstoryoftheSecondComing
ofChrist,whichrepresentsthe
modernage.

26. The Second Coming
03.
Line by Line Analysis

28. Lines 1-4
(1) Turning and turning in the widening gyre
(2) The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
(3) Things fall apart; the centrecannot hold;
(4) Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
●(1)Theuniverseiscomprisedof
interlockingcirclesorgyres
●(2)Portraysthesocietyashavingnavigated
awayfromitscommon principle.
●(3)Civilizationisdisintegrating.
●(4)Absolutechaosisunleashedleading
tothecollapseofsociety.

29. Lines 5-8
(5) The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
(6) The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
(7) The best lack all conviction, while the worst
(8) Are full of passionate intensity.
●(5-6)Biblicalmetaphor&ApocalypticImagery
●(7-8)Thegoodpeopledon’tdoanything,whilethe
badpeoplehungersforterror,violence,and
brutality.

30. Lines 9-12
(9) Surely some revelation is at hand;
(10) Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
(11) The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
(12) When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
●(9-10)ChristreturningtoEarth
●(11-12)Apocalypseonitsway&SpiritoftheWorld

31. Lines 13-16
(13) Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the
desert
(14) A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
(15) A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
(16) Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
●(13-14)Sphinxanditsriddle(threeagesofman)
●(15)ValuesoftheSphinxandinevitableevents
●(16)ImageryofSphinx’smovements

32. Lines 17-22
(17) Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
(18) The darkness drops again; but now I know,
(19) That twenty centuries of stony sleep
(20) Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
(21) And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
(22) Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
●(17)Vulturesanditssymbolism
●(18)Alliterationoftheletter“d”=death/doomsday
●(19-20)Someoneinadormantstatewillwakeupinthe
year2000sthat’sbeenawakenbythenegative
humanactivitiesdonetoeachother.
●(21)MaybeanAntichrist?It’sbeenhibernatingforavery
longtime
●(22)Anevilentityfinallyawakenandwilldeceivehumanityinthe
secondcomingofChrist(FalseMessiah)

33. Takeaways
04.
What are your insights about the poem?

34. Takeaways
What are your
insights about the
poem?

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