Humanity In WW1

Humanity has been stuck in an incredibly viscous condition of which it is unable to escape from, forcing a continuation upon a path that is undeniably solemn. Furthermore, in recent times humanity has lost control over its condition and it’s people as individuals have been able to brew hatred in the hearts of their people. “The first verse implies the inexorable movement of the gyre and consequently of history. Yeats further underscores the circling motion with the use of another symbol: a falcon escaping the control of the falconer as the spiral widens” (Persoon and Watson). Leaders gradually lost control of their men over the course of the war resulting in the attainment of a purely barbaric state in the soldiers. Therefore, soldiers who …show more content…
Those who lacked the conviction to devastate their surroundings under the false thought that actions committed through the name of an organization were always righteous and infallible were better for the world, for they recognize the error in this path. While those who were full of fierceness proceeded to increase the unending hate throughout the world as they destroyed life and culture on their warmongering paths. As this warfare continued the flow of blood become unrestrained and manifested itself in the hearts of the innocent and unrelated, as these people involuntarily assumed callous and detached personalities. Such was the only way that they were able to tolerate the various inhumanities committed and continue on with their …show more content…
The magnitude of wars fought at the time of the conception of this poem are portrayed in the scholars constant muse of a possible end of all things resulting in the Second Coming of Christ. In the minds of the people such an event was only capable of happening by the effects of those fabled demoniacs and various otherworldly entities or even God’s infinitely accumulating wrath. “Yeats recalls his conviction as a young man that the world had become ‘a bundle of fragments,’ but he admits that he did not foresee ‘the growing murderousness of the world’ and quotes the first stanza of ‘The Second Coming’ to emphasize the point” (Ross). Yeats proceeds to visualize a Second Coming and it’s savior, only to realize that the savior we have awaited and the one we received are completely different, it is a lion with the face of a man and unfortunately the savior we deserve. It is deserved due to the twenty centuries humanity has spent in it’s current age of war. This savior's purpose may be to exponentially increase the gyre of war and hatred, and causing it to become irreconcilable so that war will become the single destiny of