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‘The Second Coming’ was William Butler Yeats’ ode to the era. Rife with Christian imagery, and pulling much inspiration from apocalyptic writing, Yeats’ ‘The Second Coming’ tries to put into words what countless people of the time felt: that it was the end of the world as they knew it and that nothing else would ever be the same again.
The Second Coming. W. B. Yeats. 1865 –. 1939. 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.
Summary & Analysis. In “The Second Coming,” William Butler Yeats reflects on the cataclysmic violence that had shattered many parts of the world in the tumultuous 1910s. Yeats wrote the poem in 1919, just one year after World War I ended, two years after the Russian Revolution, and three years after the failed Irish nationalist insurrection ...
A summary of “The Second Coming” in William Butler Yeats's Yeats's Poetry. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Yeats's Poetry and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
Apr 5, 2024 · The Second Coming, poem by William Butler Yeats, first printed in The Dial (November 1920) and published in his collection of verse entitled Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921). Yeats believed that history is cyclical, and “The Second Coming”—a two-stanza poem in blank verse —with its imagery of swirling chaos and terror, prophesies ...
The Second Coming. William Butler Yeats. Track 12 on Michael Robartes and the Dancer. This poem was written in 1919, during the aftermath of the First World War, but it is a response to the...
William Butler Yeats. Themes. Previous Next. The Tumultuous Nature of Transformation. “The Second Coming” takes place in a period of momentous transformation, when one world order is giving way to another. This transformation is nothing if not tumultuous.
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