Everything about Gyre totally explained
A
gyre is any manner of swirling
vortex. It is often used to describe
wind or
ocean currents, for example the
North Pacific Gyre. In
bodies of water,
organisms use gyres for movement from areas of depleted
nutrients to areas of higher nutrients. Gyres are caused by the
Coriolis effect.
Uses in literature
Lewis Carroll uses the verb
gyre in the opening stanza of the poem "
Jabberwocky" that appears in the first chapter of
Through the Looking Glass; in chapter 6
Humpty Dumpty defines
gyre as "to go round and round like a gyroscope" (which is a valid definition, not a nonsensical one).
The word was also used by
William Butler Yeats for an occult historical concept presented in his book
A Vision (a book whose ideas Yeats claimed to receive from spirits of the dead). The theory of history articulated in
A Vision centers on a diagram composed of two conical spirals, one situated inside the other, so that the widest part of one cone occupies the same plane as the tip of the other cone, and vice versa. Around these cones he imagined a set of spirals. Yeats claimed that this image (he called the spirals "gyres") captured contrary motions inherent within the process of history, and he divided each gyre into different regions that represented particular kinds of historical periods (and could also represent the phases of an individual's psychological development). Yeats uses the word in many of his poems, including "
The Second Coming".
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