‫زينب شفيق مدب‬: ‫االسم‬

B : ‫الشعبة‬
‫الدراسة الصباحية‬
The second coming by W.B. Yeats
William described how the loss of the conventional values threw the
modernist society into a “turning” gyre that separated its members from each other.
He stated that the falcon can no longer hear the falconer suggesting that the people
have no connection neither with their social traditions nor with their religion.
Growing up cut off from their culture, the individuals lost their identity and
became known as the lost generation. Also, The Second Coming shows that the
spread of anarchy everywhere led to a political collapse. Having no ruling system
to unify them, the feeling of loneliness and alienation was strengthened among the
modern society‟s members.”

Yeats wanted to say that since “the centre”, which represents the hierarchy,
no longer has any power, this indicates the degradation of the modern society. This
degradation made people feel alienated and unattached from their society. Before
anything else and as a modern man, Yeats was concerned with the depiction of his
society‟s terrifying circumstances. He stated that the loss of the society‟s traditions
43 and the religious beliefs as well as the chaotic situation of the post-war world
made the individuals feel alienated.

Sailing to Byzantium By W.B. Yeats

Yeast’s complaint is that the modern world focuses too much on the young and is
given over to the enjoyment of feeling and instinct rather than concentrating on the
world of thought and spirit, as represented by the 'unageing intellect' of the older
and wiser generation. From his perspective, people in the modern world are
unthinkingly caught up in the perpetual cycle of birth and death. This is why he
longs to get away. 
(The listeners) by Walter De La Mare.
When the plunging hoofs were gone at the end the traveler over and over retells
that he came but so no answer, although he knows they are there but there is no
answer. For example "the sound of iron on stone", when De La Mare used Iron and
Stone as if the travelers heart is made of iron that is why he is late to the listeners
and now listeners are phantoms. Perhaps the line "the one man left awake" shows
that the listener were once people but have left themselves as if they are happy in
their silent world

(Strange meetings) by Wilfred Own

The enemy soldier says he ‘parried’ the narrator’s attack but ‘my hands were
loath and cold’. If you’re loath to do something, you’re reluctant – the soldier
already realizes the commonalty between him and his supposed enemy, and
doesn’t seem to have the heart to kill a fellow human being. Remember how,
when this ‘enemy’ soldier had first recognized the narrator, Owen’s narrator
had described him as ‘Lifting distressful hands, as if to bless’ – like a priest
forgiving someone for his sins. All is forgiven. They have both given their
lives, the ‘undone years’ of their prime, for a war whose pity the living they
leave behind will not heed. All Owen can hope for is that those who read
‘Strange Meeting’ will heed it.

The love song by T.S .Eliot.

The poem pictures the poet who is beset by fears of involvement in life, of
relationships with other people. This situation creates the poet's own internal
conflict. In "the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock" the poet comes to realize that the
modern age is not encouraging place to recite poetry. This is shown clearly in the
imagery of the first fourteen lines, which establishes the atmosphere of
disillusionment, and passivity that suffuses the poem. The simile in which the
speaker compares the evening to an like a patient etherized upon a table" (L.3)
violates the etherized patient reader's viola expectations concerning the lyrical
landscape and presents instead an image of sterility in an urban landscape, which
seems inimical to human life