Are full of passionate intensity. Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out. Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
"The Second Coming" is one of W.B. Yeats's most famous poems. Written in 1919 soon after the end of World War I, 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 announcing the Kingdom of Heaven.
" 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 collection of verses Michael Robartes and the Dancer. [1]
Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out. Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? This poem is in the public domain.
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William Butler Yeats's 'The Second Coming' delves into the hopeless atmosphere of post-World War I Europe through apocalyptic imagery.
The Second Coming (sometimes called the Second Advent or the Parousia) is the Christian and Islamic belief that Jesus Christ will return to Earth after his ascension to Heaven (the Ascension is said to have occurred about two thousand years ago). The idea is based on messianic prophecies and is part of most Christian eschatologies.