What does the widening gyre mean?

What does the widening gyre mean? The ‘gyre’ metaphor Yeats employs in the first line (denoting circular motion and repetition) is a nod to Yeats’s mystical belief that history repeats itself in cycles. But the gyre is ‘widening’: it is getting further and further away from its centre, its point of origin. What is the … Continue reading What does the widening gyre mean?