William Butler Yeats – The Second Coming

The Second Coming | The Poetry Foundation

A cast of well-known local actors brings to life the dramatic biography and gripping words of William Butler Yeats. Using seminal poems, ranging from the ...

The Second Coming (poem) - Wikipedia

“The Second Coming” is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1919, first printed in The Dial in November 1920 and included in his 1921 ...

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The Second Coming Summary & Analysis by William Butler Yeats

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 ...

The Second Coming | Poetry Out Loud

By William Butler Yeats ... Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. ... Reel shadows of the ...

Yeats's “Second Coming”—Our Most Thoroughly Pillaged Poem

The narrator suggests something like the Christian notion of a “second coming” is about to occur, but rather than earthly peace, it will bring ...

"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats - YouTube

An animated interpretation of William Butler Yeats's poem "The Second Coming" -- For an analysis of this poem, watch this video: ...

Yeats's Poetry “The Second Coming” Summary & Analysis

But as poetry, and understood more broadly than as a simple reiteration of the mystic theory of A Vision, “The Second Coming” is a magnificent statement about ...

'Things fall apart': the apocalyptic appeal of WB Yeats's The Second ...

Crucial to “The Second Coming” was the symbol of the gyre (a cone or spiral) and Yeats's conviction that history moved in 2,000-year cycles. The ...

The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats - Poem Analysis

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 by William Butler Yeats - LiveJournal

He grasps for reasons, as the first three lines reflect with their repetition: "Surely some revelation is at hand;/Surely the Second Coming is ...

William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming - YouTube

A reading and analysis of W. B. Yeats's poem, "The Second Coming." @PhiloofAlexandria.

The Second Coming | The Poetry Foundation

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Today's Poem: The Second Coming BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Given the events of the recent weeks in the United States, the massacres of innocents by White Nationalists, the abandonment of the fight ...

The Second Coming | Irish Poet, Symbolism, Mysticism | Britannica

Yeats believed that history is cyclical, and “The Second Coming”—a two-stanza poem in blank verse—with its imagery of swirling chaos and terror, ...

The Second Coming - William Butler Yeats' mythical poem may be ...

The Second Coming - William Butler Yeats' mythical poem may be one of the most terrifying and ominous poems in the English language. #poetry # ...

The Second Coming, read by Paul Muldoon – Yeats Nobel Centenary

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer" Poet and Professor Paul Muldoon reading Yeats' 'The Second ...

"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats - Scholarly Commons

W. B. (William Butler) Yeats was an Noble Prize-winning Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer, and politician. "The Second Coming" relies on Christian ...

The Second Coming | RPO - Representative Poetry Online

Yeats, William Butler. W. B. Yeats: Selected Poetry: 99-100. Ed. by A. Norman Jeffares. London: Macmillan, 1968. 1Turning and turning in the widening gyre.

Second Coming - Journey with Jesus

William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). Second Coming (1921). Turning and turning in the widening gyre. The falcon cannot hear the falconer;