Second Coming - Yeats

Second Coming ( Yeats)

Post war narrative 

Major symbol of gyre used

Book of apocalypse references which discusses about end of world as the world was created in 7 days it will be destroy one day 

Anti- Christ the evil present. In other scriptures it is referred as Dajjal( embodiment of all evil which wants to control the whole world)

To fight this dajjal the second Coming of Christ takes place.

Stanza 1- 

spiral movement of gyre represent movement of life . With that movement what it was holding falls apart. You can't put it together even if you try to. What follows is just existence of anarchy. It is am ocean full of violence, it is soaked in blood. A tidal wave that smeared in blood is loose in this world and whole innocence drown into it. It is an age devoid of determination. While the evils are full of passionate intensity they are out here to show their violence. 


Stanza 2.

It is the time when something terrible is about to unfold. Something is gonna happen from this absolute anarchy. History has revealed to us that such is the idea when revelation occur. When something increadible will be born to save us from this tyranny. we are waiting for Christ to come.


 Spirtius mundi - the focal centre of the world. The core of this universe. Spiritual core. From the centre of this world will rise the Christ to fight the evil beast. The rule of the god will be established. And finally you will have the last day of the judgement. Faiz Ahmed Faiz - ek din sabb mitt jayega ..bass naam rhega Allah ( nazm) . Along with the idea of Christ coming the beast has to come first. The birth of anti Christ is described in a well defined manner. Imaginery of Jesus presented with a pitiless gaze. The birth of beast is prepared for twenty centuries to appear one day out of sleep. Rocky cradle is kinda sleep of a baby that the beast has been sleeping for 20 centuries and will now destroy everything.( Waiting in grave for these many years) sleep of death but is now disturbed by a nightmare.

Nightmare of a cardle: very unusual imagery

Eliot is kinda uncertain, doubtful in his writings but yeats is certain and pessimistic. He sticks to a more conventional idiom. 

Eliot brings the structure of modernism. Abangaton philosophy. There is a gap of about 20 year in the writings of yeats and Eliot. 



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