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“The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats

“The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats. By: Warren Rivera. “The Second Coming”.

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“The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats

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  1. “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats By: Warren Rivera

  2. “The Second Coming” Turning and turning in the widening gyre  The falcon cannot hear the falconer;  Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;  Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,  The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere  The ceremony of innocence is drowned;  The best lack all conviction, while the worst  Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand;  Surely the Second Coming is at hand.  The Second Coming!  Hardly are those words out  When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi   Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert  A shape with lion body and the head of a man,  A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,  Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it  Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.  The darkness drops again; but now I know  That twenty centuries of stony sleep  Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,  And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,  Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

  3. Epigraph • An apposite quotation at the beginning of a book, chapter, etc.

  4. Epigraph vs. Epithet vs. Epitaph Epithet Epitaph • Any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality • A brief poem or other writing in praise of a deceased person

  5. Biography of William Butler Yeats

  6. Allusion • A passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication

  7. What allusions are in the Poem? • “A shape with lion body and the head of a man…” refers to the Sphinx in Egypt • “Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?” The Sphinx faces east, towards the general area of Bethlehem

  8. How does the poem apply to TFA?

  9. Work Cited • http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/652421/William-Butler-Yeats • http://www.dictionary.reference.com/ • http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/~eng/English_Literature/poetry_modern/coming.htm

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