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Poetry Analysis - The Second Coming

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Predominantly, I have chosen to analyse further about this peculiar poem written by William Butler Yeats which is the second coming because this poem give a view that even though if there is foretell or portend disaster, yet assures us that life will go on. The reflection gives me courage towards something calamitous happening around us. Nowadays liberty and peace exist only in physical state not emotionally. In my point of view, the poet transfer a positivity for me to keep going when liberty of living, loving and executing endangered by the abuses of power and mankind. Moreover, I believe that there is no good in war. The people that deserved to be peaceful and free as us, yet they are suffering. This poem reflects me empathy and willingness to help them. Besides that, my favourite line in this poem is the best all lack of conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity (line 7-8 / stanza 1) in basis this line illustrate me for one thing, if the best lack all conviction, can they really be good? The poet emphasize that the good or intellectuals not enough in act when people need them. On the other hand, "the worst" have all the vigour and enthusiasm to act out, which is good for them, but definitely not for everyone. Indeed, I have the same thought as the poet since today the authority and intellectuals lack of certainty to act out for the needy. This line remains a realization to arise for others if people believe in you and your act. Next, the poem has stack of stanza that captivate me. In first stanza, the poet shows the image of falcon flying away from its human master; the falcon, turning in a widening spiral, cannot hear the falconer. Here it give resemblances of falcon as us, the society while the falconer is God or someone equivalent source of intellectual. As the spiral widens, as we move away from the centre, things get more out of control; again Yeats presents the idea that we are losing control. Further, he

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