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“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] The poem uses Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse and Second Coming to describe allegorically the atmosphere of post-war Europe ...
The Second Coming (sometimes called the Second Advent or the Parousia) is the Christian belief that Jesus Christ will return to Earth after his ascension to Heaven (which is said to have occurred about two thousand years ago).
Yeats is considered one of the key 20th-century English-language poets. He was a Symbolist poet, using allusive imagery and symbolic structures throughout his career. He chose words and assembled them so that, in addition to a particular meaning, they suggest abstract thoughts that may seem more significant and resonant.
The Second Coming (Percy novel), a 1980 novel by Walker Percy "The Second Coming" (poem), a 1920 poem by William Butler Yeats 'Salem's Lot or Second Coming, a 1975 novel by Stephen King; The Second Coming: A Leatherdyke Reader, a book edited by Patrick Califia and Robin Sweeney; The Second Coming: A Love Story, a 2014 novel by Scott Pinsker
Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a 1968 collection of essays by Joan Didion that mainly describes her experiences in California during the 1960s. It takes its title from the poem "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats. [1]
The poem was written in 1886 and is considered to be one of Yeats's more notable early poems. The poem is based on Irish legend and concerns faeries beguiling a child to come away with them. Yeats had a great interest in Irish mythology about faeries resulting in his publication of Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry in 1888 and Fairy ...
The Widening Gyre may refer to the first line of the poem by Irish poet W. B. Yeats "The Second Coming". The Widening Gyre may also refer to: Games
"the centre cannot hold", a phrase from the poem "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats; The Centre Cannot Hold, a 2017 album by Ben Frost; American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold, a novel by Harry Turtledove; The Centre Cannot Hold, an EP by Digitonal; The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, a book by Elyn Saks