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Essay on William Butler Yeat's The Second Coming
The poem ‘The Second Coming’ was written by William Butler Yeats in 1919. In The Second Coming, his ideas unfold in three significant metaphors. The first metaphor relates a falcon and its falconer to the destruction of society. The metaphor has two possible interpretations. One view may be that the falcon represents society and the falconer represents God and morality.
By saying the falcon cannot hear the falconer, Yeats may be implying that society has lost sight of God and has lost the values and morals once held in place by the strong obedience to God.............
