Read these lines from William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming.”
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre/The falcon cannot hear the falconer;/Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world…”
Which of these best restates what is being described?
(1 point)
Responses
The world has ended.
The world has ended.
The world is descending into chaos.
The world is descending into chaos.
There is about to be a worldwide political revolution.
There is about to be a worldwide political revolution.
There has been a return to the world’s earliest epoch.