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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 ...
Yeats began by writing epic poems such as The Isle of Statues and The Wanderings of Oisin. [109] His other early poems are lyrics on the themes of love or mystical and esoteric subjects. Yeats's middle period saw him abandon the pre-Raphaelite character of his early work [110] and attempt to turn himself into a Landor-style social ironist. [111]
The Rhymers' Club was a group of London-based male poets, founded in 1890 by W. B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys. Originally not much more than a dining club, it produced anthologies of poetry in 1892 and 1894. [1] They met at the London pub ‘Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese’ in Fleet Street and in the 'Domino Room' of the Café Royal. [2]
The Second Coming (sometimes called the Second Advent or the Parousia) is the Christian and Muslim belief that Jesus Christ will return to Earth after his ascension to Heaven (which is said to have occurred about two thousand years ago).
Michael Robartes and the Dancer is a 1920 book of poems by W. B. Yeats. It includes the poems: Michael Robartes and the Dancer; Solomon and the Witch; An Image from a Past Life; Under Saturn; Easter, 1916; Sixteen Dead Men; The Rose Tree; On a Political Prisoner; The Leaders of the Crowd; Towards Break of Day; Demon and Beast; The Second Coming ...
Yeats's solution is to leave the country of the young and travel to Byzantium, where the sages in the city's famous gold mosaics could become the "singing-masters" of his soul. He hopes the sages will appear in fire and take him away from his body into an existence outside time, where, like a great work of art, he could exist in "the artifice ...
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 ...
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