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The Second Coming   The Second Coming reminds me of the Marabar Caves in A Passage to India because of the disjunction that is portrayed.  The poem quickly begins Turning and turning in the widening gyre cycle of history The falcon cannot hear the falconer Here Yeats reminds us all about the cycle of animation that is constantly in rebirth.  E reallything is constantly turning in a widening gyre and yet the falcon cannot hear the falconer  Life is connected in the sense that it is constantly in motion, constantly turning and yet there exists this strange disconnectedness because nature the falcon is so far separated from serviceman the falconer that it can no longer be called.  I may be reading too much into this small passage but it sincerely reminds me of Forsters Marabar Caves A tunnel eight feet long, five feet high, three feet wide, leads to a circular chamber about twenty feet in diameter.  The arrangement occurs again and again end-to-end the group of hills, and this is all, this is a Marabar Cave. . .  They are dark caves. . . there is little to see, and no eye to see it, (137)  It doesnt matter how deep you get into the caves, it doesnt matter how many turns you prosecute because you end up in a cave that looks exactly like the one in the beginning. Even language cannot be understood well, everything amounted to Boam. Nature changed the very language of mankind to boam.  Is Forsters caves a symbol of life as he saw it ?  Circular chambers that occur again and again.  I may be totally wrong but the Caves remind me of the first two lines of The Second Coming.    Yeats cry continues with Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the realism,  The world is in disarray, nature has been separated from mankind due to the Industrial revolution and philosophical thought. Locke has shown us all that meta natural entities, like nature, dont exist because its not physic al and thus able to be tested by scientific methods.   At least in the Romantic era, mankind was connected with nature.  In Wordsworth, Blake, and Keats we find a special connection with nature that is lost in Yeats.  The Romantics understood the connection mankind has with nature and tried to amplify it with their prose and poetry.