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The mo Coming   The Second Coming reminds me of the Marabar Caves in A Passage to India because of the gulf that is portrayed.  The poem quickly begins Turning and turn of events in the widening ringlet butterfly cal determinationar method of birth control of history The falcon cannot hear the falc sensationr Here Yeats reminds us all about the cycle of life that is constantly in rebirth.  E actuallything is constantly turning in a widening gyre and yet the falcon cannot hear the falconer  emotional state is connected in the sense that it is constantly in motion, constantly turning and yet there exists this strange disconnectedness because spirit the falcon is so far separated from adult male the falconer that it can no overnight be called.  I may be reading too a great deal into this small passage but it really reminds me of Forsters Marabar Caves A tunnel ogdoad feet long, five feet high, three feet wide, leads to a circular chamber about 20 fe et in diameter.  The arrangement occurs again and again throughout the group of hills, and this is all, this is a Marabar Cave. . .  They are dark caves. . . there is little to opine, and no eye to see it, (137)  It doesnt matter how deep you get into the caves, it doesnt matter how many turns you follow because you end up in a cave that looks exactly want 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 2 lines of The Second Coming.    Yeats cry continues with Things fall apart the center cannot hold clear anarchy is loosed upon the world,  The world is in disarray, nature has been separated from mankind cod to the Industrial revolution and philosophical thought. Locke has shown us all that metaphysical entities, like nature, dont exist because its not physical 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 move to amplify it with their prose and poetry.