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  1. www.poetryfoundation.org › poems › 43290The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats | Poetry Foundation

    By William Butler Yeats. 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;

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  3. poets.org › poem › second-comingThe Second Coming by W. B. Yeats - Poems | Academy of ...

    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.

  4. www.owleyes.org › text › the-second-coming-yeatsThe Second Coming Full Text - Text of the Poem - Owl Eyes

    The New Testament describes the Second Coming as being preceded by the appearance of beasts which persecute the faithful. Yeats subverts the reader’s expectations by portraying the arrival of a pre-Christian, “pitiless” monster instead of biblical beasts or the expected forgiveness of Christ.

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  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Second_Coming_(poem)The Second Coming (poem) - Wikipedia

    " The Second Coming " is a poem written by Irish poet W. B. Yeats in 1919, first printed in The Dial in November 1920 and included in his 1921 collection of verses Michael Robartes and the Dancer. [1] . The poem uses Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse and Second Coming to describe allegorically the atmosphere of post-war Europe. [2] .

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    • The Dial

  7. www.litcharts.com › the-second-comingThe Second Coming Poem Summary and Analysis | LitCharts

    • “The Second Coming” Summary.
    • “The Second Coming” Themes. Civilization, Chaos, and Control. See where this theme is active in the poem. Morality and Christianity.
    • Line-by-Line Explanation & Analysis of “The Second Coming” Lines 1-2. Turning and turning in the widening gyre. The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Lines 3-6.
    • “The Second Coming” Symbols. The Falcon. See where this symbol appears in the poem. The Beast.

  8. poetryarchive.org › poem › second-comingThe Second Coming - Poetry Archive

    The Second Coming. Yeats had a cyclical view of history in which very briefly much the same events come round roughly every two thousand years, each cycle or era, or in Yeats's own terminology, each complete expansion of the gyre, starts off with a union between the divine and the human.

  9. poemanalysis.com › william-butler-yeats › the-secondThe Second Coming by William Butler Yeats - Poem Analysis

    ‘The Second Coming’ by William Butler Yeats delves into the tumultuous atmosphere of post-World War I Europe through apocalyptic imagery. Read Poem PDF Guide

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