Originally published in the collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer, it begins, "turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer.
Critics such as Spender and MacNeice claim that it prophesizes the rise of fascism, though Jon Stallworthy showed that the poet removed allusions to the Russian Revolution and World War I. A "vast image out of Spiritus Mundi troubles" the speaker's sight, and a "blood-dimmed tide is loosed" during the titular event. Originally published in the collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer, it begins, "turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer." The source of the title for Achebe's Things Fall Apart, for 10 points, name this poem which asks "what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born," a work by William Butler Yeats which alludes to the return of Christ.
Critics such as Spender and MacNeice claim that it prophesizes the rise of fascism, though Jon Stallworthy showed that the poet removed allusions to the Russian Revolution and World War I. A "vast image out of Spiritus Mundi troubles" the speaker's sight, and a "blood-dimmed tide is loosed" during the titular event.
“The {Second Coming}”