The reality - "The Second coming of Jesus and the end of the world" revelation based on WB Yeats poem "The Second Coming "
"The Second Coming,” of course, refers to the Christian prophecy in the Bible’s Book of Revelation that Jesus will return to reign over Earth in the end times. Yeats had his own mystical view of the history and future end of the world, embodied in his image of the “gyres,” cone-shaped spirals that intersect so that each gyre’s narrowest point is contained inside the widest part of the other.The gyres represent different elemental forces in historical cycles or different strains in the development of an individual human psyche.
The challenging imagery starts to make more sense. The “falconer,” representing God’s attempt to control the world and his people, but he has lost his “falcon” which represents humans, in the turning “gyre”. These first lines could also suggest how the modern world has distanced people from nature and from God. In any case, it’s clear that whatever connection once linked the metaphorical falcon and falconer has broken, and now the human world is spiraling into chaos.
Meanwhile, the “Spiritus Mundi” mentioned by the poem is what Yeats thought of as the world’s collective unconscious, from which the poet could draw insight. This vision of the beast, then, is suggestive of a worldwide shift into “anarchy,” as the collective mind of humanity lets go of morality.
Further the sphinx-like appearance is also deliberately suggests a break with Christian morality. Some kind of revelation has to happen soon, and the Second Coming itself must be close. Excitedly, the speaker exclaims: "The Second Coming!" But just as the speaker says this, a vision comes to the speaker from the world's collective unconscious. The speaker sees a barren desert land, where a creature with a man's head and a lion's body is coming to life. Its expression is, like the sun, empty and without pity.
The “blank gaze” of this new creature provides further evidence of just how hopeless the situation is. This being might have the head of a “man,” but it doesn’t have moral sense—instead, it is “pitiless.” It is arriving to preside over “blood-dimmed tides” and “drowned’ “innocence”—not a world of kindness, charity, and justice. Its Its legs are moving slowly, and all around it fly the shadows of disturbed desert birds. Everything becomes dark again, but the speaker knows something new: two thousand years of calm have been irreversibly disrupted by the shaking of a cradle. The speaker asks: what beast, whose time has finally come, is dragging itself towards Bethlehem, where it will be born.
Mark 13:32
"But of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone"
According to the Bible, this is meant to happen when humanity reaches the end times: an era of complete war, famine, destruction and hatred. The poem suggests that the end times are already happening, because humanity has lost all sense of morality—and nowadays morality has become like an illusion to begin with.
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