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The Second Coming   The Second Coming reminds me of the Marabar Caves in A Passage to India because of the dis partnership that is portrayed.  The poem quickly begins Turning and routine in the widening gyre cycle of history The hunt cannot hear the packman Here Yeats reminds us all about the cycle of life that is ceaselessly in rebirth.  Everything is continuously 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 disposition the falcon is so far separated from mankind the falconer that it can no longer be called.  I may be reading too much into this small passage simply it rightfully reminds me of Forsters Marabar Caves A tunnel eight feet long, five feet high, three feet wide, leads to a handbill chamber about twenty feet in diameter.  The arrangement follows once more and again thr oughout the group of hills, and this is all, this is a Marabar Cave. . .  They are dark spelunks. . . there is undersize to see, and no eye to see it, (137)  It doesnt effect 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 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 figure 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 isolated the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,  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 metaphysical entities, like nature, dont exist bec ause 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 tried to amplify it with their prose and poetry.