Where are chaos, pessimism, and loss of faith in the poem "The Second Coming"?Can anyone write the verses of the poem that refers...

Yeats' poem "The Second Coming" is a description of the
state of the  world following World War I using apocalyptic imagery.  The poem is filled
with images of chaos, pessimism, and loss of faith.  In the first few lines, Yeats
describes a world in chaos, one that is spinning out of control.  It
is

Turning and
turning in the widening gyre . . .

Things, fall apart; the
center cannot hold.

Here we
get the idea of a spinning top whose wobbly axis cannot support its circling mass.  The
world seems precariously near collapse, and

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Mere anarchy is loosed upon the
world

Loss of faith is also
prevalent in the poem and is connected to the present
chaos:

The
falcon cannot hear the falconer . . .

The best lack all
conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate
intensity.

In these lines,
Yeats uses the metaphor of a falcon who cannot hear his trainer call him back home to
describe a world that cannot hear god's voice.  As a result, the best of men have no
strongly held beliefs, no strong moral principles,  and the worst of men are the ones
who are passionate and intense.  In other words, the best have lost all faith while the
worst are driven by fanaticism and irrationality.

The
pessimism of the poem comes in the last few lines when Yeats describes the second
coming.  The second coming is not a positive image; it is a "rough beast," slouching
"towards Bethleham to be born."  The implication is that for the next twenty centuries,
a new era will develop, and that this new era will be worse than the Christian era
preceding it.