The Second Coming The Second Coming reminds me of the Marabar Caves in A Passage to India because of the "disconnection" that is portrayed. The poem begins quickly: "Turning and turning in the widening vortex [story cycle] The falcon cannot hear the falconer"; here Yeats reminds us of the whole cycle of life which is constantly in rebirth. Everything is constantly "spinning" in a "widening loop" and yet the "falcon cannot hear the falconer" Life is connected in the sense that it is constantly in motion, constantly "spinning" and yet there is this strange "disconnection" because nature" the falcon" is so far from humanity that "the falconer" can no longer be called. Maybe I'm reading too much into this little passage, but it really reminds me of Forster's Marabar Caves: "A tunnel eight feet long, five feet high, three feet wide, leads. to a circular chamber about twenty feet in diameter. The arrangement is he repeats throughout the group of hills, and that is all, this is a Marabar cave. There is little to see and no eye to see in the caves, it doesn't matter how many turns you take because you end up in a cave that looks exactly like the one at the beginning. Even the language can't be understood well, everything was equivalent to "Boam". Nature has changed the very language of humanity to "boam". Are Forster's caves a symbol of life as he saw it? "they occur again and again." I could be completely wrong, but the Caves remind me of the first two lines of The Second Coming. Yeats's cry continues with: "Things fall to pieces; the center cannot hold; Simple anarchy breaks loose in the world: "The world is in disorder, nature has been separated from humanity by the industrial revolution and philosophical thought. Locke showed all of us that metaphysical entities, such as nature, do not exist because they are not physical and therefore capable of being tested by scientific methods. At least in the Romantic era, humanity was connected with nature. Inworth, Blake and Keats we find a special connection with nature that is lost in Yeats nature and they sought to amplify it with their prose and poetry.