The first metaphor relates a falcon and its falconer to the destruction of society. The metaphor has two possible interpretations. One view may be that the falcon represents society and the falconer represents God and morality. By saying "The falcon cannot hear the falconer," Yeats may be implying that society has lost sight of God and has lost the values and morals once held in place by the strong obedience to God. In another interpretation, Yeats may be saying that the falcon represents

The second metaphor conveys Yeats' idea that anarchy has taken over. The metaphor begins with "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed," suggesting that the purity of the soul has been corrupted by the destruction that accompanies chaos. Yeats uses the second line of the metaphor, "...and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned," to show how the value of life, health of country, and civilized order have died. In this metaphor Yeats conveys his socio-religious idea that the deterioration of societal morals has led the way for anarchy to corrupt the religious purity of the individual.

a war and the falconer represents the military power that has unleashed it to the point where all control is lost and faith in God has been abandoned. The next line

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