Allusions In The Second Coming

Lee describes how “the vulture-headed sun lies low”(Lee 7), comparing the sunset to a scavenger bird awaiting death. Similar to a vulture feeding upon its prey, the sunset consumes the light as the days get shorter. Moreover, Lee relates that the approach to autumn causes death by illustrating how the sheep’s “blackened tongue gives forth the first bleat of snow” (Lee 15-16). Lee compares the sheep’s cry to the winter coming. During winter, many plants die and the sheep’s cry is acting the beginning of the death that is to come. Overall, Lee uses metaphor to compare animals to natural processes in nature that cause

“Spring Storm” uses metaphors and Similes to remind us that anger passes, and that something good can come out of bad. The main idea of the poem is to show us that if you are angry their is always a form of good that can come after the bad has passed. First Wayne uses a metaphor to compare man to a wind storm: “He comes gusting out of the house”(1). This shows his anger and how it feels to have that anger inside, and Wayne uses a simile to compare the stormy sky to his anger: “He moves like a black cloud / over the lawn and---stops”(3-4). This part of the poem shows the storm that is in the man's mind. The poem “spring storm” shows how after any storm (anger) their can be calm (happiness).

Nature is first described in a peaceful and confident mood as something majestic, with the sun as the powerful being which controls this nature. However, by the end of the first stanza, “The hawk comes”. This phrase is said as if the narrator is afraid of the hawk and its presence is going to change the mood of the rest of the poem. The next stanza suddenly uses sharp diction, such as “scythes”, “honed”, and “steel-edge”, to illustrate the hawk’s stunning motions and the powerful aura of the hawk that is felt just from its existence, causing the mood of the poem to slowly transition to fearful, yet respectable. The narrator adores this change the hawk is causing on nature, and describes the scene with the hawk in awe, showing how the poet finds the changing of nature attractive.

    In the first two lines of the poem, Yeats writes "Now as at all times I can see in the mind’s eye, / In their stiff,

We can be more specific and see what the poet and writer exactly talk about. It is better to focus on the poem first as it was written before the novel. In his poem William butler Yeats is shocked by the events which were happening during the First World War. “Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned…”, he tries to picture the dark ages of the war and the nasty events which were happening by using some metaphors and similes such as “a shape with lion body and the head of man” or “shadows of the indignant desert birds” Therefore, he manage to transmit the terrifying atmosphere of his time to the reader. He can not stand this state of fairs so he thinks that it is the end and he hopes that it is time for the second coming of Christ.

Slouching Toward Bethlehem took ideas from WB Yeats Poem “The Second Coming” where both pieces of writing for inspired by the following of wars. In “the second Coming”

The second prophecy that resurfaced originated in Ezekiel chapter thirty-seven with the fulfillment the Israelites returning to the area they originally lost control over. “Then God said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Listen to what they’re saying: ‘Our bones are dried up, our hope is gone, there’s nothing left of us.’ But God says: I’ll dig up your graves and bring you out alive—O my people! Then I’ll take you straight to the land of Israel. When I dig up graves and bring you out as my people, you’ll realize that I am God. Then I’ll lead you straight back to your land and you’ll realize that I am God. I’ve said it and I’ll do it.” (MSG Bible) Similar to the message provided in the first prophecy, this

Furthermore, this poem heavily uses a mixture of literal and figurative imagery. One of my favourite examples of imagery in this poem was “hands reaching out / fists raising up / banners unfurling / megaphones booming” (Jetñil-Kijiner 62-65). This quote allows the reader to imagine the protests and the movements that people are trying to do in order to save the planet. That was a case of extremely powerful and inspiring literal imagery as it shows people’s fight for change. This is an example of people who are fighting to save the planet for not only the current generation but for future generations as well. There are also several examples of figurative imagery, the most prominent is personification. An example of personification is “they say [the lagoon] will gnaw at the shoreline / chew at the roots of your breadfruit trees / gulp down rows of your seawalls / and crunch your island’s shattered bones” (12-15). In this example, it is talking about the repercussions of climate change and what the future will look like if people do not change. The use of personification helps the reader understand the awful things that can

In the poem “The Second Coming”, by William Butler Yeats. He writes this poem after World War I, around 1919. Yeats is a Irish poet, who came from Protestant parentage. The over all theme of the poem is that God will come back again. There are many versions to how God will appear, but in this poem bad things happen first in order for God to come. In “The Second Coming,” Yeats uses symbolism to unfold the meaning of the poem.

put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart. I

As Lewis Chafer notes, continuity in the Bible is best shown through the fulfillment of prophecy (164). Christ is the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies. And the Second Coming of Christ is the expected fulfillment of the New Testament prophecies. In both cases, and throughout the Old and the New Testaments, "highways of prophecy" are directed towards Advents of Christ.

The Poem “The Second Coming” from William Butler Keats, is about Revolutions, (John 2.18). When Keats wrote “The Second Coming” the world was filled with violence and turmoil, WW1 had just ended, The Russian Revolutions had started, and the world was on the eve of The Angelo Irish War. Through these events, Keats looked around his world and was left trying to understand these events that left him struggling with the concept of religion. Keats felt the world was changing and because of these events the 20th Century was changing and that an end of an age was upon the world. Keats uses the narrator to tell the story of “The Second Coming” and uses the language in his poems of Irish traditions and the Gaelic language to bring back the old traditions of Irish culture through his poems. In “The Second Coming” Keats uses automatic writing, to write this poem, Keats could dictate spirits that would take over his writing and used elegant syntax and Latin’ to describe the spirit of the universe instead of saying the devil or the anti-Christ and uses Bethlehem in the meaning of Christ’s birthplace. Keas uses a pose sonnet, Keats liked to break up the coherence of his sonnets and write them to be rugged, colloquial, and to have concrete language, he rhymed through his poetry but often off-rhymed for example, in “The Second Coming” the sun and the man are the only words that rhythm and used linear writing and short sentences. Throughout “The Second Coming” Keats uses the importance of symbolism such as of the “gyres” more and more

In “To Autumn”, the season autumn is depicted as death, or as the Grim Reaper. Autumn is, however, an unusual reaper figure, in that they are not merciless, but patient and calm. Interestingly enough, the point of view Keats offers about death, is non-violent, not corporeal, and only implicit in the poem, through metaphors. Almost all human components are removed from the poem, and death is symbolized by nature only. It is put into a context where it occurs in the course of nature, and pictured as a consequence of riches, abundance, and fulfilment.

William Butler Yeats wrote “The Second Coming” after World War 1 ended, in a time when the image of society was catastrophic. Yeats was deeply affected by these horrors caused by the war. Yeats predicts this image of a catastrophic society due to war will reappear in the near future. In “The Second Coming”, William B. Yeats uses a variety of literary devices to portray his idea of what the downfall of society will look like.

The fifth stanza describes the quality that Yeats came to see as at the very heart of civilized life: courtesy. By courtesy he understands a means of being in the world that would protect the best of human dignity, art and emotion. And in his prayer for his daughter he wishes that she will learn to survive with grace and dignity in a world turned horrific. He explains that many men have hopelessly loved beautiful women, and they thought that the women loved them as well but they did not.