What does the phrase “The falcon cannot hear the falconer” symbolize for you?

[Still-alive]

It comes fro ma line in this excellent poem by Irish poet William Butler Yeats called The Second Coming:

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This isn't the whole poem by the way just the first of two stanzas

[Harleigh90]

I remember this briefly. Isn't the falcon us (humans) lost with out a ruler, we're searching for a meaning 🤔

😆 Probably completely wrong on this

[dustybiker]

Good lord man this is dark. You ok?
I’d say. Loss of complete control and no known way of reclaiming it.

[Still-alive]

yes lol. i love this poem though. its a classic.

[dustybiker]

Ah, good. Yes. I like dark myself. You yourself don’t normally lean this way.

[Still-alive]

yeah i like lot of dark stuff too. i've also writtten dark poetry myself when i was a teenager

[dustybiker]

Nice. I too write.. even if my punctuation skills are lacking, really enjoy it. Fun thing to learn about you.

[Still-alive]

i have a feeling this question won't be popular lol. not a whole lot of poetry enthusiasts on here

[dustybiker]

Who would have thought? Video games trump reading, again.

[dustybiker]

Thanks for the mhg. 🐦

[Kaneki05]

Shrugs means whatever nonsense this guy meant. Since Falcons can hear the falconer pretty easy this is just a false statement to back whatever he thought was smart in his head. When in reality it don't work. Now if he said The rain cannot hear the cloud that would make sense.

Yeah I don't really like poets they often write nonsense down that don't make any sense but then claim it does if you have to explain what it's meaning was afterwards and it's just linked to a false statement not very smart.
When poets say been used up like cigarettes now that makes sense. Or how something is as yellow as a sunflower. These all make sense and are alright. Still just cringe are poems but at least they made sense.

[Still-alive]

haha ok buddy...

[menina]

I'm pretty sure I'm wrong but to me it means that humans are not listening to Mother Nature. So we are doomed.

[purplepoppy]

Given the religious nature of the irish does it mean people won't hear the call of God because they've had too much Guinness?

[Lillie_xo]

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
it symbolises
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[llorando]

DNC listening to their party base.

[OddBeMe]

Revolutions are of citizens unheard