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In W.B. Yeats's poem 'The Second Coming', the line 'The falcon cannot hear the falconer' functions as a metaphor for:
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- 1The diminishing power of the Catholic Church
- 2The loss of control and coherence where the centre cannot hold✓
- 3The failure of democracy in modern states
- 4The breakdown of the feudal system
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The loss of control and coherence where the centre cannot hold
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