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5 days ago · William Butler Yeats (born June 13, 1865, Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland—died January 28, 1939, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France) was an Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
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- What was William Butler Yeats’s family like?William Butler Yeats’s father, John Butler Yeats, was a barrister who eventually became a portrait painter. His mother, formerly Susan Pollexfen, w...
- What did William Butler Yeats accomplish?Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer William Butler Yeats was the preeminent writer of the Irish literary renaissance at the turn of the 20th ce...
- What were William Butler Yeats’s goals?In his early writings, William Butler Yeats evoked a legendary and supernatural Ireland, more pagan than Christian. He hoped to instill pride in th...
6 days ago · "The Second Coming" is a poem written by Irish poet W. B. Yeats in 1919, in the aftermath of the First World War and at the beginning of the Irish War of Independence, which followed the Easter Rising of 1916, but before David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill sent the Black and Tans to Ireland.
4 days ago · Surely the Second Coming is at hand: G: The Second Coming Hardly are those words out: H: When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi: F: Troubles my sight somewhere in sands of the desert: I: A shape with lion body and the head of a man: J: A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun: K: Is moving its slow thighs while all about it: L: Reel shadows of the ...
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1 day ago · This is very important because scripture indicates the devil will impersonate Jesus and will become an angel of light, but he can’t counterfeit God’s True Second Coming, so if we follow and know God’s Word, we won’t be deceived 1 Thes 4:17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the ...
1 day ago · Seized each second in many ways Yet the sunshine never stays – And here I am contemplating I’d foxtrot my way through the rains Tango a message that explains Until only a rumba remains – To leave the fat lady waiting Waited she did until too late I could not escape this certain fate And ever since that fatal date – I walk the streets alone
