“The Second Coming” presents a nightmarish apocalyptic scenario, as the speaker describes human beings' increasing loss of control and tendency towards violence ...

This iconic poem, penned in 1919, captures the collective anxiety of a world emerging from the First World War and entering the Irish War of Independence. Yeats ...

“The Second Coming” was intended by Yeats to describe the current historical moment (the poem appeared in 1921 ) in terms of these gyres.

23 июн. 2023 г. · Lines three through six describe collapse and turmoil, a dissolution of order and a rising tide of violence and revolution without cause.

In the poem, Christianity is a symbol of hope and peace, but in 'The Second Coming', the end is nigh, and all the innocent people will be drowned in the "blood- ...

3 авг. 2024 г. · In the second stanza, Yeats uses his religious beliefs to express concern about the ongoing wars and their potential apocalyptic consequences.

18 апр. 2024 г. · It is a metaphor for the state of the world at the time, decaying and dying. The face, a 'gaze blank and pitiless as the sun', causes the reader ...

The Second Coming. Analysis. A 22-line poem, two stanzas, in free verse, with loose iambic pentameter (mostly five stresses and ten syllables per line but ...

7 апр. 2015 г. · Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out. When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight ...

'' It represents the oncoming crisis that Yeats fears will soon overtake the world, 2000 years (20 centuries) after the birth of Jesus. The poem's ending ...