The Second Coming

"Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;"

These few lines are very significant to the world today. I found that this poem is mainly about the war and how the world was left afterwards. It was thought that the world would be fine after the war was over because there would be no more fighting or anything like that. Little did they realize, the country was at it's weakest point. "Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world" describes terror and tragedy. The country was left in ruins and the people were left with few rations of food. It describes how although people may think everything is fine and dandy, it's not. The next line, "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed" gives the sensation of an ocean of blood surrounding us, describing all the blood spill from the war. Again, meaning that although everything seems fine and we are no longer fighting, it's not fine. People lost their husbands, brothers, children, etc. There's no fixing the pain and heartbreak you feel with loss. The next line, "The ceremony of innocence is drowned", describes the adolescents that were loss in the war. The young soldiers who were under 20 years old. Their innocence died with them. Not only that, the innocence of the children who witnessed the war is gone as well. They saw too much to ever see the world in a clear light again. I think that this applies to our world today because innocence is something children lack these days. Although we are no longer at war, the world is extremely corrupt. Children witness drug addicts, hate crime and violence every single day. These few lines apply to our society in the sense that the world will never be the same or will never be how it was pre-war.