Ava’s Reviews > The System of Chaos in "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats. How is the Breakdown of the World Depicted? > Status Update

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.