Defining The Term Second Coming

The second coming is about a God coming back to earth to bring peace to all on earth. God is bringing peace and joy to earth stopping all wars and uniting all the people to be one unity. People shall not believe in what god unless they have proof that he’s real and by coming back to earth he’s showing them that he is all powerful.

When it says “A shape with lion body and the head of a man,” its saying that he is a man he is all powerful god and he can end every world problem and bring peace to all on earth. God has the power and ability to bring joy and love to all rich, poor and peace to the angered. In a world full of war and loss of faith surrounded by war and technological developments. The sinking of the Titanic represents the falling of the Great Britain empire and newly invented weapons allowed war to become even deadlier than before due to the ability to organize attacks. Due to this new world full of bloodshed and new mechanical inventions, the world was falling further and further away from God. William Butler Years expresses his sudden collapse of society in his poem “The Second Coming”, first composed in January of 1919. The hopelessness of mankind is addressed by Keats’ statement that man cannot save us, God cannot save us,

Society has strayed so far away from God that we cannot be guided back home.

Yeats begins the poem with the first two lines painting an image of society falling apart and breaking down, one that O’Brien refers to as a “cultural breakdown.”He says, “The falcon represents those forces that function productively only when disciplined.” In order to maintain structure and to prevent the gyre from widening further, our society needs discipline, otherwise our structure, our faith, or very nature as human beings deteriorates. At this time in our society, our discipline in our faith is gone. Our discipline in our morals and ethics is gone.

Lines 3-6 illustrate society’s inability to hold together without discipline. Because the falcon can no longer hear the falconer to find its way back home, “things fall apart” – the result of society straying from God. With everything falling apart, the need for someone or something to save society becomes prominent. Since society has strayed away from God, the next solution is man as a saviour, but with the new age of war and machinery, mankind has lost their ability to save the world. O’Brien says, “Everything that makes life valuable is being drenched in blood. ‘The ceremony of innocence’ refers no to one particular ceremony but is intended to suggest the grace and order of civilized society. Moreover, there is nobody to fight ‘the blood-dimmed tide.”

The Poem the second coming has many important ways of telling us the second coming is coming and when it does we will have no idea what to expect.