The Widening Gyre

ambiguity and can be related to any change within life, hence allowing audiences to superimpose their own beliefs and ideas into the poem. Yeats continues to explore his aversion towards modernism in The Second Coming with the appointment of a new “gyre” standing as the symbol for a new age. The fear of

experiences & product know-how which FVC did not have. - Additional, being a large international financial corporation, RSE hold a deep financial pockets which FVC is lacking to expand its research & development as well as executing the firm’s "widening gyre" project which Bill Flinder believes that would have a broad application in nautical, aerospace and automotive products. Based on the investment required to bring such technology to market, he estimated the economic value at between $10 and

Many times, literature can be intriguing, and other times, confusing. During the course of this year, although we had discussed a various amount of stories, there were certain ones that had the strength to leave an impact on the reader. The following will reveal the favorite piece of literature from this semester’s syllabus as being “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin because of its epiphany, and the most challenging piece as being “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats because of its millennialism

poem. The use of symbols in the poem helps to convey the message of how World War I was when William Butler Yeats wrote it. In the first line he says, “Turning and turning in the widening gyre”. The word "gyre" is an important recurring symbol that William uses not only in “The Second Coming” but in all his poems. “Gyres” stands

“Mysterious, beautiful" are words that spring to mind in regard to Yeats’ poetry. There is no denying the complexity of some of his poetry much like this quote from the Wild Swans at Coole many of his poems have both a literal and figurative meaning. I found some aspects of Yeats’ poetry quite challenging at times, on the other hand, I found that he also had the ability to get complex ideas across using both direct and accessible language. Yeats’ use of figurative language and metaphor baffled me

Yeats compares a falcon to chaos as he writes, “Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,” (1). Yeats suggests that as the falcon is turning moving farther away, society is losing its grip on sustainability as it inches

Coming’ utilises poetic form to explore how the worlds characterisation of violence and disorder catalysed his uncertainty about both the political world and his personal world. Beginning in media res, the tetrameter “turning and turning in the widening gyre”, highlights Yeats’ belief in the

Similar Themes in Things Fall Apart and The Second Coming     The novel "Things Fall Apart" examines African culture before the colonial infiltration. Achebe's novel forces us to examine the customs and traditions that make up an informal culture. At times we may find some their practices appalling, but Achebe makes us realize that the traditions and customs are what essentially hold the Ibo together. Achebe wrote 'Things Fall Apart" with the intention of changing the common view

Yeats saw destruction and war at a new level and the only thing that could change society, from his perspective, would be a second coming.  Everyone was stuck in this cycle or “widening gyre” with history repeating itself forever which only a second coming could break the cycle. Similarly, Wall-E, is an exaggeration of today’s society where humanity has already destroyed earth once and is about to repeat itself again.  This is the

that he can get faith from the god, because the god has “ made up a heaven of our [his] misery.” (12) Moreover, the poem “The Second Coming” also indicates that there’s no hope among the world. The speaker starts out the poem with the image of widening gyre, which illustrates that