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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.
Learn about the meaning, themes, imagery, and context of Yeats's famous poem \"The Second Coming\", written in 1919 after World War I. Compare the Christian idea of the Second Coming with the arrival of a beast in the poem's vision.
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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 First Wor...
Stanza One
Much has been written on the apocalypse, and many of those writings focus on the harbingers of the event: it is always bloody and massive, a vicious explosion that shakes the world to its foundation. In Yeats’ poem, the apocalypse is a much quieter, more understated, affair. It opens up with the disturbance of nature. Falcons were used as hunting animals since the medieval era. They are incredibly smart, and dedicated to their trainers, responding immediately to any noise that their handler m...
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In the second stanza, the Biblical imagery takes over the visions of corrupted nature. From the start, Yeats ties his poem to religion by stating ‘the Second Coming is at hand’, and conjuring up a picture of a creature with a lion’s body and a man’s head, much like the sphynx, and a gaze as ‘blank and pitiless as the sun’. By comparing it to the very nature that Yeats spoke about in the first part of the poem, he brings out the almost infallible quality of this beast: like nature, it feels no...
W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet born on the 13th of June, 1865. He is considered a largely Irish poet, although he ran in British literary circles as well, and he was a big part of the resurgence of Irish literature. In 1923, he was to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for his poetry, as the first Irishman. This was shortly after Ireland had finally g...
Learn about the apocalyptic imagery and symbolism of 'The Second Coming', a poem by Irish poet William Butler Yeats. Read the poem, the meter, the comment, and the biography of the poet.
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26 de out. de 2023 · Read the full text of Yeats's famous poem about the apocalypse and the end of the world. The poem describes a vision of a beast with lion body and human head, and asks if the Second Coming is at hand.
"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]
11 de jan. de 2016 · ‘The Second Coming’ is one of W. B. Yeats’s best-known poems, and its meaning has eluded many readers because of its oblique references and ambiguous images. What follows is a short summary and analysis of the poem. What does ‘the second coming’ refer to, and how does it fit with Yeats’s own beliefs?
A poem by Yeats that foresees the end of the Christian era and the rise of a beastly power. Read the poem text, listen to the recording, and explore the context and themes of this modernist masterpiece.
