The Second Coming
Document Type
Website
Publication Date
1920
Course Date
Spring 2023
Course Number
HU 145
Course Title
Themes in the Humanities
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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