Meru by William Butler Yeats

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Poems of W.B. Yeats: The Rose

Meru by William Butler Yeats

1. How is Meru dealing with themes similar to The Second Coming?

2. Why is society a semblance of logical order?
3. What is man’s basic tendencies?

4. What civilizations are now ruined because of these impulses?

5. What, if we presage man’s future, is the ultimate destiny of human civilization?

Asked by Aurora B #553677 on 9/15/2016 8:00 PM

Last updated by Aslan on 9/15/2016 9:57 PM

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Answered by Aslan on 9/15/2016 9:56 PM

1. Both poems deal with themes of disintegration of civilization and man's unceasing search for meaning in a brutal world. Yeats looks for a spiritual, perhaps Hindu, truth in the world. In The second coming, Yeats looks for truth as well by transitioning into a new universe away from the social deterioration of the modern world.

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