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The Second Coming: Analysis
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The poem “The Second Coming” was written by William Butler Yeats in 1919. Yeats was an accomplished Irish poet and was known for the socio-religious ideas he emphasized in his poetry. In “The Second Coming,” his ideas unfold in three significant metaphors.
The first metaphor relates a falcon and ....
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....ve died. In this metaphor Yeats conveys his socio-religious idea that the deterioration of societal morals has led the way for anarchy to corrupt the religious purity of the individual.
The third metaphor brings out Yeats’ religious idea of the Second Coming of Christ. Yeats begins the second stanza with “Surely some revelation is at hand,” alluding to the fact that the situation of anarchy and devastation is so grave it is crying out for the Second Coming of Christ. He uses the Sphinx, a soul.... |
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