The Second Coming
Document Type
Article
Subject
Literature Studies
Publication Date
1920
Course Date
Spring 2022
Course Number
HU 142
Course Title
Studies in Literature
Abstract
W. B. (William Butler) Yeats was an Noble Prize-winning Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer, and politician. "The Second Coming" relies on Christian Apocalypse imagery while writing of a world recovering from a flu pandemic and WWI.
[Adapted from Wikipedia]
Copyright
This poem is in the Public Domain.
Recommended Citation
Yeats, William B.. "The Second Coming." 1920. Retrieved from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming.
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