The Second Coming Questions and Answers
What does the term "spiritus mundi" seem to imply in stanza 2 of "The Second Coming"?
What is "gyre" in "The Second Coming"?
Explain this line from "The Second Coming": "The falcon cannot hear the falconer."
What is the basic theme of the poem "The Second Coming"?
Discuss the use of allusion in William Butler Yeats's “The Second Coming.” How is it important to the development of the theme of the poem?
What is the "best" and the "worst" in the poem "The Second Coming"?
Why does William Butler Yeats end the poem "The Second Coming" in a question?
What literary devices has Yeats used in "The Second Coming"?
What drowns the "ceremony of innocence" in "The Second Coming"?
How is "The Second Coming" a prophetic poem?
What imagery is present in the poem "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats?
Write a critical appreciation of W. B. Yeats's poem "The Second Coming."
What historical event might the speaker of "The Second Coming" be referring to with "anarchy is loosed upon the world"?
Who are the falcon and the falconer?
What is the significance of the falconer?
What is the significance of the gyre in poem "The Second Coming"?
What vision of future is suggested in the second half of "The Second Coming"?
How does "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats connect to the ideas and themes of Modernism? In other words, how is it a modernist poem? Provide many examples from the poem on how it’s modern as well.
What are the main themes in Yeats's "Second Coming"?
Please explain this line from Yeats's "The Second Coming": "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world".
Identify the reason the the falcon cannot hear the falconer. Explain how this metaphor helps to explain what is happening in modern society.
Discuss Yeats's use of symbolism in "The Second Coming."
Where are chaos, pessimism, and loss of faith in the poem "The Second Coming"?
What is the "vast image" he sees in "The Second Coming"?
Yeats wrote "The Second Coming" as a response to the atmosphere of the postwar Europe. How are the anxieties expressed in the poem similar to those that might have been felt during and after wartime?
What is the main idea in "The Second Coming"?
Briefly explain at least two factors that influenced Yeats's writing of "The Second Coming."
What is Yeats's claim about the Second Coming?
In "The Second Coming," what displaces the speaker's vision of a happy time in lines 13-16?
Explain these lines from "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity."
What is the symbolical significance of the falcon and falconer in the poem "The Second Coming"? What is Yeats's intention in using these symbols?
How does William Butler Yeats connect to Western civilization in "The Second Coming"?
Identify the elements of Symbolism in "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats. Thanks a million.
Is "The Second Coming" a magnificent statement about the contrary forces at work in history and about the conflict between the modern world and ancient world?
What are important lines from the poem "The Second Coming"?
What vision of the contemporary world is implied by the metaphors in the first half of "The Second Coming"?
Write the themes of the poem"the second coming" in detail.
"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats illustrates Yeats's theory of history repeating itself in a rising and narrowing spiral on different planes of reality. What does the poem say about the way in which the speaker sees this age as a repetition, with a difference, of the advent of Christ?
What is the summary of "The Second Coming"?
Do you think that Yeats's "The Second Coming" will remain popular throughout the twenty-first century, and does the poem offer special insight for today's readers?
Please give an explanation of the poem "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats.
How is the theme of change depicted in "The Second Coming"? What is the poet suggesting that we do for a solution?
Comment on the themes of Yeats's "The Second Coming."
What are the binary oppositions in W. B. Yeats's "The Second Coming"?
What is the imminent "revelation" described in "The Second Coming"?
What is an explanation of the poem "The Second Coming"?
What is the main theme of William Butler Yeats' poem "The Second Coming"?
How does the traditional idea of the Second Coming differ from what the speaker is envisioning?
In "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats, what is the author trying to tell us and/or what is the most interesting?
Summarize the following lines in the poem "The Second coming": "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned."
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