Comparing Mans Downfall in Second Coming and The world...

Mans Downfall in Second Coming and The world is too much with us Although W.B. Yeats wrote roughly a century after the Era of Romanticism, his Romantic precursors influenced his writing greatly. One of his most famous poems, The Second Coming, echoes both Blakes The Book of Urizen and Shelleys most ambitious poem Prometheus Unbound (Bloom 530). Despite less criticism on the relationship between Yeatss poems and the writing of another one of his Romantic predecessors, William Wordsworth, Wordsworths reproach of greed and materialism in a waxing industrial society influences Yeats poetic interpretation of the apocalypse. Both Wordsworth and Yeats depict mans downfall; The world is too much with us foreshadows and†¦show more content†¦Frustrated, Wordsworth declares that he and his society lay waste [their] powers admitting to the evils of their frivolousness. Although humans efforts would be much better directed toward Nature, their greed and self-indulgence have brought them to the point where they can hardly identify with Nature anymore. With the act of giv[ing] [their] hearts away in line 4, Wordsworth voluntarily accepts that the humans can not help themselves but need divine aid. The complaint of the poem might thus be rewritten, the world is too much with us: not enough in us, of us (Levinson 645). Mans loss of focus on Nature, described in the first four lines of The world is too much with us results in a loss of control of Nature in lines 1-4 of The Second Coming: 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 (Yeats 2280). Ostensibly, Yeats echoes Wordsworths first line, Little we see in Nature that is ours. However, Yeatss portrayal of mans break with Nature seems more urgent than Wordsworths did. The falcon (mans mastery of Nature) cannot hear the falconer (man) not because the bird wills disobedience, but because it has spun too far out to hear its master (Bloom 531). While the men of The world is too much with us spend their time absorbingShow MoreRelated Comparing the Epic of Gilgamesh, Hesiods Theogony, and Ovids Metamorphoses3432 Words   |  14 PagesComparing the Epic of Gilgamesh, Hesiods Theogony, and Ovids Metamorphoses   Ã‚   There are many parallels between the Epic of Gilgamesh, Hesiods Theogony, and Ovids Metamorphoses. The first similarity is immediately apparent: structure. We can view the structure of the Gilgamesh story as three concentric circles: a story within a story within a story. In the outer circle, a narrator prepares the audience for the primary narrative, contained within the second circle: the tale of Gilgameshs adventuresRead MoreEssay on Silent Spring - Rachel Carson30092 Words   |  121 Pagespublic image was irrevocably transformed. 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