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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939 ... 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: a waste of desert sand; A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow...
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Yeats equates this gaze and this transmission with the Sphinx, which he also uses to denote the Second Coming of Christ. After Yeats presents this brilliant visionary image, he says "The darkness drops again." His vision ends and he starts thinking again.
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www.humboldt.edu/~jlw47/thesecondcoming.html
www.humboldt.edu/~jlw47/thesecondcoming.html
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The Second Coming (poem) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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" The Second Coming " is a poem by William Butler Yeats first printed in The Dial (November 1920) and afterwards included in his 1921 verse collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer . The poem ...
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Read the following poem, which is the source of the title of Achebe's novel: William Butler Yeats: "The Second Coming" (1921); Yeats was attracted to the spiritual and occult world and fashioned for himself an elaborate mythology to explain human experience.
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www.wsu.edu/~brians/anglophone/achebe.html
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The speaker predicts the arrival of the Second Coming, and this prediction summons a “vast image” of a frightening monster pulled from the collective consciousness of the world. Yeats modifies the well-known image of the sphinx to embody the poem’s vision of the climactic coming.
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www.sparknotes.com/poetry/yeats/themes.html
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An Analysis of Yeats' The Second Coming - An Analysis of Yeats' The Second Coming Yeats' poem "The Second Coming," written in 1919 and published in 1921 in his collection of poems Michael Robartes and the Dancer, taps into the concept of the gyre and depicts the approach of a new world order.
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In the visionary poems such as 'Leda and the Swan' or ‘The Second Coming', Yeats is concerned to intermesh the divine world with the animal, to show the world of time as centaurlike, beautiful and monstrous, aspiring and deformed.
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faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/Yeats.html
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William Butler The Second Coming Yeats Criticism and Essays ... The Second Coming Yeats, William Butler - Introduction ... Criticism > Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism > The Second Coming Yeats, William Butler - Introduction...
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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 ... In the System of A Vision, Yeats indicates that the coming Avatar,
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www.yeatsvision.com/SecondNotes.html
www.yeatsvision.com/SecondNotes.html
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