English Language and Literature

 Line by line analysis of “The Second Coming”: (Stanzas and their Paraphrasing) Stanza No. 1   In the first stanza, the poet William Butler Yeats talks about the ever-increasing and stretching spiritual circles that become bigger and bigger as they move upward. Each circle in that cone-shaped coil represents the 200 years of our history. According to him, in each one of those two hundred years, there always comes a time when humanity almost comes across its extinction because of its own made-up, chaos, and destruction. The Falcon which is the man, causing all this destruction, is not being able to recognize his Creator i.e. the falconer. There also seems to be an imbalance in everything and because of this imbalance, the forces that are trying to keep everything in shape and order are now not being able to do so. They are all falling apart. The only thing that can be seen in this world is the state of disorder because there