Hey all so ok i'm stuck on a homework assignment for one of my classes. Please please help

It's on Yeats's poem "The Second Coming"

I'm supposed to write a mini essay, meaning the first paragraph...

I don't have an argument because i don't understand the piece.

I want to speak about the variations in language used, the repetition of words and the overall diction used...but i don't know exactly how yeats encorporates these into his argument please please help! thanks

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.


I am unclear how one can want to talk about the things you mention without having been previously so inspired by the piece itself, but let that go.

Actually, it is the first stanza, not the first paragraph, being poetry instead of prose.

By repetitions, I would think you mean turning, falcon/falconer, and loosed. Variations in language used generally indicates choosing words of Latin origin versus those of Anglo-Saxon. If this is so, any good dictionary will offer etymologies along with definitions.

The overall diction I don't follow either, sorry. I would guess at didactic, meaning instructive, if that is any help.