THE SECOND COMING POEM

The Second Coming Poem

The Second Coming Poem

The Second Coming, in writing by William Butler Yeats, could only be understood in one way. First you should take into concern, the state of Yeats' motherland at the time when this was written. Ireland was in the state of municipal conflict and the concept of The Second Coming of Christ was a despairing bawl in the pattern of a poem. The New Testament shows The Second Coming as a time span of tribulation. Yeats desired that The Second Coming would purify the world and end warfare in Ireland. (Albright 1997)

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