In William Butler Yeats's "The Second Coming," Yeats uses allusions, symbols, and vivid imagery to convey his cynical and despondent tone towards new corrupt evil. , and the immoral era following the First World War. Yeats begins the poem with the image of a "widening gyre" or vortex of spiraling motion. This image immediately implies chaos and disorder in a society that is becoming more and more out of control and more and more corrupt. Yeats develops and supports this idea with “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold” and “Simple anarchy is unleashed upon the world” to further symbolize how the universe is collapsing into confusion and principlelessness. Yeats also implies the coming danger and disaster with the image of a hawk who "cannot hear the falconer" to further illustrate the suspense and danger humanity faces. This image also suggests that, like the hawk flying in a "widening gyre, society has strayed too far from its morals and is doomed to corruption. Yeats continues his cynical tone with "everywhere the ceremony of innocence »....