![]() In understandable concern with the supernatural, a great deal of the criticism has ignored how much more Yeats belongs to the great anthropological and historical interests of our time than to any magical specific. If one is to isolate a major interest in Yeats’s poetry, one might better emphasize how much more the great poems derive from history and anthropology. The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,įish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long – Those dying generations – at their song, In one another’s arms, birds in the trees Referring to the country that the narrator has left, he says that this country is not for “for old men” like him: On the other hand, the narrator in the other poem evokes agony and sadness. The best lack all conviction, while the worst The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere Things fall apart the centre cannot hold In the former, the narrator is describing a nightmarish and violent scene: The mood and the tone in the “The Second Coming” are obviously different to that of “Sailing to Byzantine”. Metered in iambic pentameter, each stanza has two trios of alternating rhyme followed by a couplet in short, the poem is rhymed ABABABCC. On the other hand, the four eight-line stanzas of “Sailing to Byzantium” have the form of a very old verse. Likewise, the rhymes are random aside from the two opening couplets, there are only unintentional rhymes in the poem like “man” and “sun”. However, the meter in the poem is so loose, and the exceptions so common, that apparently the poem is closer to free verse with recurrent heavy stresses. Yeats wrote “The Second Coming” in a very coarse iambic pentameter. Finally, this essay argues that the two poems are similar as regards the use of the metaphor of a “gyre”. In addition, they are different in that, while history and anthropology predominate over supernaturalism in “Sailing to Byzantium”, it is the opposite in “The Second Coming”. It can be said that, while they differ in terms of tone, mood, meters, and rhymes, these two impressive poems are similar in terms of the simplicity of structure and the immediate conviction of pertinent emotion. This discusses the similarities and differences between these two poems. Two of the finest of all William Butler Yeats’s poems, are his “The Second Coming” and “Sailing to Byzantium”.
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