Question

Read "The Second Coming" and answer the question. The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, 5 The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; 10 Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, 15 A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again, but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep 20 Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? What is the central theme of the second stanza? A) People fear what they do not understand. B) Society has created many of its own problems. C) The approaching beast is an all-powerful entity. D) Looming disasters are seldom preventable.

Answer 1

Answer:

D) Looming disasters are seldom preventable.

Explanation:

The second verse shows how the beast is determined to reach its destination and no matter how far or how slow the beast is, nothing will stop it from reaching the narrator. The beast is relentless and sooner or later it will reach the narrator, no matter what and what I do. In this case, we can say that the stanza uses the theme "Looming disasters are seldom preventable".