In the first stanza of “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats, the speaker paints a picture of chaos and a frightening sight. The first image we read is the gyre. “Turning and turning in the widening gyre” (1), Tracy Caldwell says that “the gyre refers to Yeats's personal understanding of the cyclical events of history explained in his work "A Vision", which details the theory of metaphysics and history that he claimed. having received spirits from the world” (2). In the second line, the speaker asserts that the order is cowardly: “the hawk cannot hear the falconer” (2). "The hawk's circular motion not only refers to the gyre explained above, but may also refer to the loss of the gravitational center, exerting a powerful integrating force held in place only if the hawk would (or could) keep its normal orbit around it. the falconer” (Caldwell 2). Bloom says “and the hawk represents his mastery of nature, now crumbling” (2). “Things are falling apart; the center cannot hold” (4). Everything is out of control. “The ceremony of innocence is drowned/the best lack all conviction, while ...