‘The Second Coming’ by William Butler Yeats

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‘The Second Coming’ by William Butler Yeats: Stanza 1 explained line by line/ Explanation of the First Stanza/Elucidation of the Opening Stanza with critical comments

 

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,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

 

Ans. These lines constitute the first stanza of the poem The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats.


The opening line of the poem mentions of a spiral or a ‘gyre’ that is a geometrical figure. As we see, the vortex is getting widened more and more tirelessly. Broadly speaking, the more the gyre is widened or turned, the more strength it does lose. Again, in another words, it can be said that the falcon—a predator bird—fails to hear the instruction of the falconer. We must notice that the higher the falcon flies, the more inattentive it becomes to its master.


In this way, human civilisation loses its central idea because of being too much scattered. Like the epicentre of an earthquake, our civilisation is getting more distracted and vain day after day. It is as if everything is going to be out of control. Hence, everything falls apart. Yes, everything loses its restraint and value with the passage of time and with the increasing banality of human civilisation. How can a centre hold the entire system when the ‘gyre’ is getting uncontrolled more and more? We tend to make it clear that all is happening for our so-called civilisation. Therefore, the more we stretch it, the more we do lose all in this regard.


It is unfortunate to note that there is no order anywhere. That is to say, there is anarchy or disorder or chaos or lawlessness in every inch of this world; that, too, is loosed or unleashed by us actually. The more time advances, the more heartless we all grow, and that is why bloodshed and such negative and heinous activities are pampered by the so-called human beings. Do we actually ever object or do we actually ever protest to establish the truth against the tide of blood or violence? Haplessly, the harmless or the innocent ones have to become nullified. No, there is no room for any humanity at all.


Again, in this context, it must be mentioned that ‘the best’ or the harmless and innocent people are compelled to be vanquished by the lawless and ruthless ones in all walks of the society. Why should be the malevolent ones be ‘full of passionate intensity’? The more our civilisation gets diverted from the focal point, the more it loses its intensity.



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