6 feb 1919 año - 'Second Coming' - W.B. Yeats

Descripción:

William Butler Yeats's early years poems are romantic, symbolic, elegiac and conventional in form, but after 1920, his poetry became more modernist, more concise and direct, uniting mythology and visionary, often prophetic symbolism, as in 'Second Coming':
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world..."
→in this poem his apocalyptic vision of the modern world is conveyed through the image of 'gyres', that is to say spirals of 2000 years which cyclically widen, reach anarchy and collapse before another era begins. Y believed that his era should spiral out of control 2000 years after the birth of the Christ (soon)