An Unexpected FutureIn his poem "The Second Coming", William Butler Yeats expresses that the disastrous behaviors endured by humanity will result in the beginning of a dark and frightening new era. , and controlled by chaos. The poem serves as a warning of what might await us if we do not change the direction society continues to take. “Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer; » The hawk is described as "circling" in a "widening gyre". A gyre is a spiral that expands outward as it rises. “Things are falling apart; the center cannot hold; The idea that “things are falling apart” perhaps still speaks to the hawk. The second part of the sentence, “the center cannot hold,” is full of government connections. “Simple anarchy is unleashed on the world”, “The bloody tide is unleashed and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned”; This explains how the water will engulf us in a way that seems similar to Noah's Arc and the flood. “The best lack conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. » “The best” and “the worst” can be...