Thursday, October 6, 2011

"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats

I thought that this poem related to the book The Lord Of The Flies, because to me the poem was about being stranded. The poem is about men turning into savages when things are out of control and confusing. Things start to fall apart without order. Like in the book, Ralph is still trying to hold onto order when Jack and the others have clearly lost it and bad things start to happen. Hunting became so important because the saveage in the boys came out. Just when you think something good might happen, it disappers before you even realize it was coming. The ship past and everyone got excited, but it wasnt until after the ship left sight that the boys realized the fire was out. There was no way the ship could have seen them. The poem symbolizes the beast in us, the book also has a hidden meaning of the beast in us. Savage is the beast in us, the beast emerges when we are without normal society around us. Human nature is a scary thing without order. That is how the poem relates to the book, in my eyes.

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