Critical reading the questions below refer to the selection "the second coming and sailing to byzantium." which best reflects the central message of "the second coming"?
a. in world history, a cycle of order follows a cycle of chaos.
b. society is doomed to revert to its barbaric origins.
c. humanity is powerless to do anything against the forces of time and nature.
d. a dark future is foreshadowed by the violence of the present.
