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A famous poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming depicts a vision of the Second Coming of Christ as a symbol of the end of the world and the loss of innocence. The poem explores the themes of religion, history, and politics through the imagery of a falcon, a rocking cradle, and a blood-dimmed tide.
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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...
Stanza Two
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...
A poem that explores the apocalyptic atmosphere of post-World War I Europe with symbolism and imagery. Learn about the poem's meter, meaning, themes, and context with a line-by-line commentary and a PDF guide.
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The Second Coming (sometimes called the Second Advent or the Parousia) is the Christian belief that Jesus Christ will return to Earth after his ascension to Heaven (which is said to have occurred about two thousand years ago).
The poem uses Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse and Second Coming to describe allegorically the atmosphere of post-war Europe. It is considered a major work of modernist poetry and has been reprinted in several collections, including The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry .
A famous poem by W.B. Yeats that imagines a world of chaos, confusion, and pain, and a vision of Jesus's return as a savior replaced by a grotesque beast. The poem explores themes of civilization, chaos, and control, as well as morality and Christianity. Learn more about the poem's structure, symbols, poetic devices, and context.
A poem of visionary horror and mystical imagery, inspired by the book A Vision of a zodiac of the Second Coming of Christ. The poem depicts a vision of a savage beast emerging from the desert, symbolizing the end of an age of innocence and the birth of a new one.
5. Apr. 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.
