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?

Which best describes the progress of the beast in stanza 2?

A.) a fearsome force
B.) a constant force
C.) a relentless force
D.) a rebellious force

Answer 1

Answer:

C.) a relentless force.

Step-by-step explanation:

The sentence that best describes the progress of the beast in stanza 2 is that the beast is a relentless force. We have learned that there is a revelation that troubles the author. He sees an image of a beast with the body of a lion and the head of a man. He tells us that the beast "is moving its slow thighs" and that the beast "slouches towards Bethlehem to be born." Moreover, we know that at some point, its hour will come at last, and meanwhile it is slowly moving towards it. This means that the beast is relentless, as it is constantly moving towards its destiny.

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

C.) a relentless force.

Step-by-step explanation:

The sentence that best describes the progress of the beast in stanza 2 is that the beast is a relentless force. We have learned that there is a revelation that troubles the author. He sees an image of a beast with the body of a lion and the head of a man. He tells us that the beast "is moving its slow thighs" and that the beast "slouches towards Bethlehem to be born." Moreover, we know that at some point, its hour will come at last, and meanwhile it is slowly moving towards it. This means that the beast is relentless, as it is constantly moving towards its destiny.