The issue foregrounded in these two poems is the evil men’s soul. People are filled with overflowing cruelty and viciousness. In the first stanza (line 2) of the Second Coming, the poet used an image of a falcon to highlight how great people are moving away from God to earthly things. “The second image of the poem- ‘the falcon cannot hear the falconer’- suggests not only the absence of authority, but the violent destructiveness (represented by the uncontrolled falcon) which follows without it” (Spurr and Cameron, 2010, 208). To elaborate further on the above quote, the falcon can be considered as the people and the falconer as God. People are no longer under the authority of God, but instead they are doing as they
