"The Second Coming" is a 22-line poem by Modernist poet William Butler Yeats. It was written in 1919, and was published in November of 1920 in The Dial. It was later included in his 1921 collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer. The poem uses apocalyptic and Christian imagery to describe the anxiety and dread of European life in the wake of the First World War.
In his poem The Second Coming, W.B. Yeats predicts a frightening scene which he sees as the coming of the end of the world. Yeats utilizes a combination of elements to create a horrifying backdrop fo...
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From the title of W.B. Yeats poem, "The Second Coming", one might expect to read about the glorious return of Christ to save his followers. However, Yeats portrays a dismal world where anarchy reigns...
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