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A famous poem by Yeats that depicts the chaos and violence of the modern world and the coming of a mysterious beast. Read the full text, analysis, and context of this apocalyptic vision.
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- The Second Coming
"The Second Coming" is one of W.B. Yeats's most famous poems. Written in 1919 soon after the end of World War I, it describes a deeply mysterious and powerful alternative to the Christian idea of the Second Coming—Jesus's prophesied return to the Earth as a savior announcing the Kingdom of Heaven.
Hace 4 días · ‘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
"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. The poem uses Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse and Second Coming to describe allegorically the atmosphere of post-war Europe . [2]
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.
Because of its stunning, violent imagery and terrifying ritualistic language, “The Second Coming” is one of Yeats’s most famous and most anthologized poems; it is also one of the most thematically obscure and difficult to understand.
15 de mar. de 2021 · Yeats wrote “The Second Coming” in early January 1919 (YC 202); its sense of murderousness conceivably encompasses World War I, the Easter Rising, and the Russian Revolution. The Anglo-Irish War, which has its great poem in “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen,” was then brewing, but did not commence in earnest until January 21, 1919.
