The Second Coming by William Yeats by Troy Donaldson https://padlet.com/tcd1288/TSC Aim: How can an analysis of William Yeats' poem, The Second Coming, help us to determine the theme in Things Fall Apart? en-us 2016-12-07 01:09:49 UTC 2026-02-25 12:58:45 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Clouds.png tcd1288 https://padlet.com/tcd1288/TSC/wish/142188582 Why do you think Yeats chose to use a biblical title and theme in his poem?]]> 2016-12-07 01:20:58 UTC https://padlet.com/tcd1288/TSC/wish/142188582 tcd1288 https://padlet.com/tcd1288/TSC/wish/142189502 The poem is entitled “The Second Coming.” Is the “rough beast” approaching Bethlehem a savior, or something else?]]> 2016-12-07 01:32:19 UTC https://padlet.com/tcd1288/TSC/wish/142189502 tcd1288 https://padlet.com/tcd1288/TSC/wish/142190183 Is what Yeats describes inevitable (impossible to avoid) in any society? Will generations in time experience drowned innocence, with people growing further and further away from the teachings and principles that bind their communities together?]]> 2016-12-07 01:40:41 UTC https://padlet.com/tcd1288/TSC/wish/142190183 tcd1288 https://padlet.com/tcd1288/TSC/wish/142190807 What is your interpretation of the poem's meaning?]]> 2016-12-07 01:49:12 UTC https://padlet.com/tcd1288/TSC/wish/142190807 tcd1288 https://padlet.com/tcd1288/TSC/wish/142190914 How would you describe the mood of the poem? (In other words, what feeling or atmosphere does itbring about?) What are some adjectives that might describe it?]]> 2016-12-07 01:50:37 UTC https://padlet.com/tcd1288/TSC/wish/142190914 Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.Surely some revelation is at hand;Surely the Second Coming is at hand.The Second Coming! Hardly are those words outWhen a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desertA shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleepWere vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? tcd1288 https://padlet.com/tcd1288/TSC/wish/142266292 - William Yeats]]> 2016-12-07 13:11:54 UTC https://padlet.com/tcd1288/TSC/wish/142266292 A.S asanysmall https://padlet.com/tcd1288/TSC/wish/142272440 The poem portrays sadness because the mood of the background music and the narrator is disappointing ]]> 2016-12-07 13:36:38 UTC https://padlet.com/tcd1288/TSC/wish/142272440 Alaysia Clarke mariluzolibris08 https://padlet.com/tcd1288/TSC/wish/142272730 The mood of the poem is sadness because the poem says "things fall apart", after that the poem becomes depressing as the person talks about "the second coming"]]> 2016-12-07 13:37:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tcd1288/TSC/wish/142272730 Michael s. elkinsgrullon https://padlet.com/tcd1288/TSC/wish/142277124 The meaning of this poem to me is that living on earth is like living on hell because there are alot  and dangerous things on earth]]> 2016-12-07 13:53:48 UTC https://padlet.com/tcd1288/TSC/wish/142277124