In the poem "The Second Coming" Yeats described his reaction to the growing murderousness of the real world. Yeats probably was concerned about how the world was changing and how humans were changing with it.
             The first two lines in the poem get straight to the point. The first two lines in the poem meant that as the falcon soars higher and higher in a spiral it can not hear its falconer, which is it was almost out of control and out of reach. I think that falcon was a metaphor that was used effectively to describe people, that were going out of control and it was becoming almost impossible for things to go back to the way they had been because too much change was taking place. A higher power was loosing control over a lower power. "Things fall apart; the center can not hold" meant that the world was then being destroyed and the future was disintegrating. A "center" is usually something that holds everything together and if it "can not hold" it means that everything was falling out of place. "Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed hide is loosed"; Yeats probably tried to show a series of wars, disasters, conflicts and terrorism that involved a numerous casualties.
             In his poem Yealts tried to predict the death of civilization, describing the world as a place of anarchy and disaster. The poem told that that chaos must have signaled The Second Coming, because twenty centuries had passed since the birth of Jesus Christ. But this Second Coming did not give a hope for return of Christ but the arrival of a fearsome, awful creature who would claim his kingdom and rule for the next historical era. This "rough beast" was described as a sphinx "with lion body and head of man", accompanied by "shadows of indigent desert birds" which were wishing more blood and more destructions too.
             In the poem "The Second Coming" there was no way to...