1. By the assertion that "Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart," Keats is saying that by throwing oneself at a single goal and by disciplining yourself to only one focus, you can lose yourself in the process and sacrifice a far greater price than what the goal is worth, in this case, you heart, or soul. By striving for that one focal point, your heart will harden to others and to your own emotions and will become a "rock" in Keats eyes, or it will harden you and make you insensitive and bitter.
2. This poem is very similar to "The Second Coming" in that they are both abstract in nature and need the reader to decipher and interpret the meaning because it is vague. They both talk of negative circumstances and of violence, but the second coming is more broad because it is about an event that has not yet come to pass, and the Easter 1916 is about an event that has already happened and is now being reflected upon.
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