Second Coming

There are a lot of wars happening around us today. The poem “Second Coming” includes many metaphors that can be translated in various ways. The gyre is the idea of the author on how things operates. It explains how an extreme can always contain a minimum of the opposite. Also, the World War I is connected to the image that the poem is showing about the chaotic nature of it. This war can be described as something that is a part of the picture the that gyre is showing. The prevalent themes of the “Second Coming” by the author revolves around the cyclical nature of the gyre and the chaotic order of the war. The gyre is the author’s idea about two extremes that would always contain a minimum of the opposite. The double gyres that are intersecting

Comparatively, the extended pattern of the gyres can be compared to the timeline of order of wars. After the World War I ended, it was followed by a small gap of silence, then multiple wars happened one after another. This pattern shows the chaotic order of the war. After a war there will be peace, then after peace another war will start. In the same way, the two gyres would also have this pattern of reaching to the maximum point going to the origin, and from origin going to the maximum point. In the poem the author said, “Surely some revelation is at hand; surely the Second Coming is at hand.”(9,10), these lines portray the continuous cycling of the two gyres. Everytime the gyre would go back to a minimum, it would continue and become and extreme again and make a pattern of the two gyres intersecting while inverted toward each other. The “revelation” in the those lines portrays the minimum in the extreme of the two gyres intersecting. Also, the “Second Coming” portrays the next pattern that would happen again after the gyre reaches the origin point again. In these given examples, it shows how the gyre is being used in the