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The Second Coming

The Second Coming. By: William Yeat s. Autobiography. Born in County Dublin, Ireland 1865 Studied in London, England 1867 Attended the Metropolitan School of Art, 1884 – 1886 Co-founded the Rhymer’s Club with Ernest Rhys, 1890 Met Maud Gonne, a 23-year-old heiress, 1889

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The Second Coming

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  1. The Second Coming By: William Yeats

  2. Autobiography • Born in County Dublin, Ireland 1865 • Studied in London, England 1867 • Attended the Metropolitan School of Art, 1884 – 1886 • Co-founded the Rhymer’s Club with Ernest Rhys, 1890 • Met Maud Gonne, a 23-year-old heiress, 1889 • Proposed and rejected multiple times, 1891, 1899, 1900 & 1901 • Yeats established the Irish Literary Theater, 1899 • Married toGeorgië Hyde-Lees, October 20, 1917 • Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, December 1923 • Appointed to the first Irish Senate for two terms, 1922& 1925. • Died in Menton, France, January 28, 1939

  3. Structure • Free Verse Poem & Iambic pentameter • 22 lines w/ octet & 14-line stanza • Pessimistic to faithfultonalalternations • Apocalyptic Theme with Biblical references

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