The Second Coming

conflict, ambition and morality, allow the reader to relate to and empathise with the poet. A good example of this is WSC, a poem in which Yeats explores themes such as love, loneliness and the passage of time. The most interesting lines occur in the second half of the poem in which he describes the swans as they "paddle in the cold companionable streams, or climb the air". Once I unravelled the symbolism and understood what they have to say about relationships and the difference between a shared life

"Yeats' poetry is driven by a tension between the real world in which he lives and an ideal world world that he imagines." - Respond to the studied poetry in light of this statement. W.B Yeats is a poet famous for his romantic, and often ironic, portrayals of the world and us, its inhabitants. His struggle to reconcile the reality of human life with the model world he writes of, and so desperately yearns for, resonates through his poetry and lends a profound depth to his work. Yeats' enchantment

Analysis of William Butler Yeats' Poems; When You Are Old, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Wild Swans at Coole, The Second Coming and Sailing to Byzantium In many poems, short stories, plays, television shows and novels an author usually deals with a main idea in each of their works. A main reason they do this is due to the fact that they either have a strong belief in that very idea or it somehow correlates to an important piece of their life overall. For example the author Thomas

been illustrated in the past. This in turn hooks the readers with two works that seemingly contradict with the ideas of Miller and can be seen as tragedies, they include Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart and William Butler Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming.” In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, as we all readers know pursues the stereotypical set-up of developing a tragic hero to a certain extent. In my eyes, the common man is Okonkwo whose tragic figure is troubled with a fatal flaw

his book A Vision (1925, 1937)[1]. “The Wild Swans at Coole” and “The Second Coming” are poems of Yeats’ which incorporate symbols, and will be discussed in this essay.

of this destruction with no chance of stopping it. Things Fall Apart begins with an epigraph by William Butler Yeats to create a picture for the reader before commencing on a journey to the heart of Nigeria and the nature of humans. From “The Second Coming” , the title is derived directly from the poem itself. “Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” Even before introducing

precursor of what is to come and befall the villagers of Nigeria. “Turning and Turning in the widening gyre, The Falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things Fall Apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world” –W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming” (Achebe, 2). The way the text is written one can compare it to how things are turning and falling apart, the story being told is not linear. It jumps from one moment to another in time while still moving forward. In a sense, it feels like

Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart mentions parallel themes that occur in William Butler Yeats poem “The Second Coming” related to the arrival of the Christian religion in the Ibo tribe. In the novel Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo considers himself, as well as everyone else in their clan, to be a great warrior and someone who was well-respected. Throughout the story, Chinua Achebe hints “the second coming” (Yeats line 11) when he is told he has to get rid of Ikemefuna. Secretly, he really did like this

there are more than two billion Christians living in the world, making it the world’s largest religion. All these Christians believe in the “Second Coming,” a phrase which alludes to the Christian belief that Jesus Christ will return to judge humanity at the end of the world. Both William Butler Yeats and Dannie Abse have unique visions about “The Second Coming” of Christ at the end of the world. Through the use of stunning, violent imagery and terrifying ritualistic diction, William Yeats believes

In each writer’s work, the atonement with the father occurs through the hero or heroine meeting the power that controls them, the power that motivates them to complete their journey. The hero or heroine must confront and defeat the power that controls him or her in order to procure wisdom that allows them to complete their journey. In William Butler Yeats’ “Sailing to Byzantium,” the atonement with the father occurs when the aging man finally talks to the sages on the mosaic wall, confronting the