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The System of Chaos in "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats. How is the Breakdown of the World Depicted? The System of Chaos in "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats. How is the Breakdown of the World Depicted?
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A hot take on The Second Coming is that it isn’t just about chaos, but about the unsettling idea that a new order replacing the old might be even more terrifying because author Yeats suggests that when systems collapse, what emerges isn’t always gauranteed to be better because it's more unpredictable.
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The System of Chaos in "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats. How is the Breakdown of the World Depicted?