"The Second Coming" (pp. 1109-10), by W. B. Yeats is a very good poem in which Yeats explains his position that events in time move in two thousand year cycles. He compares the movement of time to a gyre (1) or funnel that gets wider, or narrower, as you move from one end to another. In "The Second Coming", Yeats tells us that a widening cycle that began with the birth
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