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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 ...
Although a technical pun, "Bobince"'s use of "The <center> cannot hold it is too late." is a very clever mashup of a HTML tag and the phrase from "The Second Coming" poem. The StackOverflow question, "Regular Expression for Extracting Script Tags". is a classic, with 3.8m views. Perhaps this is a sufficiently notable use as to be included in ...
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).
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
Most of Robert Frost's narrative and conversational poems are in blank verse; so are other poems like Wallace Stevens's "The Idea of Order at Key West" and "The Comedian as the Letter C", W. B. Yeats's "The Second Coming", W. H. Auden's "The Watershed" and John Betjeman's Summoned by Bells.
Auditory imagery pertains to sounds, noises, music, or the sense of hearing. (This kind of imagery may come in the form of onomatopoeia). Olfactory imagery pertains to odors, aromas, scents, or the sense of smell. Gustatory imagery pertains to flavors or the sense of taste. Tactile imagery pertains to physical textures or the sense of touch.
Maybe we all watched a little too much This Is Us and are still mourning the loss of Jack Pearson, or maybe a kitchen mishap as a child has left us wary of slow cookers. Whatever the case may be ...
Sailing to Byzantium" is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in his collection October Blast, in 1927 [1] and then in the 1928 collection The Tower. It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight lines of iambic pentameter. It uses a journey to Byzantium (Constantinople) as a metaphor for a spiritual journey. Yeats ...