The mood and tone of "The Second Coming" are obviously different

from those of "Navigation to the Byzantine." In the first, the narrator

describes a nightmare and violent scene. On the other hand, the narrator
in the other poem evokes agony and sadness. Referring to the country
the narrator left, he says that this country is not for "the elderly" like
him.

If one wishes to isolate a major interest in Yeats's poetry, one could

better emphasize how much the great poems derive from history and
anthropology. In an understandable preoccupation with the supernatural,
much of the critics have ignored how much Yeats belongs to the great
anthropological and historical interests of our time than to any magical
specific. In "Navigation to Byzantium", history and anthropology clearly
predominate over supernaturalism: they provide both the symbolic
framework and most of the details by which the supreme myth is
established.
Here, "pillows in a gyre" is too explicit to survive in force after its
novelty has been absorbed. "God's holy fire" adds a level of significance,
but its isolation itself indicates how overwhelming the poem is
expressed in historical anthropological terms. On the other hand, it can
be said that, in "The Second Coming", supernaturalism predominates
over history and anthropology. This is evidenced by Yeats' use of
Spiritus Mundi in the poem, which literally means "Spirit of the World."
It is believed that it could have led Yeats to propose that Judgment Day
or the end of the world was approaching.

There are about these two poems, for any slow reading, the immediate
conviction of the pertinent emotion; the lines shake, separately and in
their smaller groups, and there is a sensitive life in them that makes them
seem to combine in the form of an emotion. We can immediately say,
for what it is worth, that in writing his poetry, Yeats was able to choose
words that, to an appreciable extent, were the right ones to reveal or
represent the emotion that was its purpose. The words give the meaning
that was made available to them by the craft with which they were
arranged, and this meaning is theirs, not to be separated or to be given
another arrangement without diminution.

Like all his cycles, once his mythology is remembered, Yeats's

structural antinomies can be considered symbols of an exploding and
contracting gyre. we must imagine, as an illustration, that the skeletal
contours of a poem move around a large spiral, returning to a position in
which they were initially, but always one step higher. They return with a
variation, like universal history, as they mount a symbolically wrapped
ladder.

For example, in the opening lines of "Navigation to Byzantium",

the narrator describes natural life, which he rejects: "Everything is born,
born and dies". In the last stanza, after escaping from nature in his
dreams, he sings fondly "From that which is past, or passing, or that
which is to come." On the other hand, the endorsement referred to in the
first line of "The Second Coming" is the actual movement of a bird in
flight, similar to a endorsement: "Return and return to the widening
endorsement / The Falcon cannot hear the falcon. . ”Is also the symbolic
cones of Yeats history; but we must not know this last meaning of the
"widening endorsement" before the "Second Coming" can be either
understood or rejoiced.