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	William Butler Yeats' Poem "The Second Coming" Analyzed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		This idea is reinforced and repeated later in the poem when Yeats brings in the image of the Sphinx, which is a re-connection of these two components.
		In the second part of the poem Yeats gives us the second bird metaphor in the form of "indignant desert birds." These creatures appear to have been roosting on the Sphinx, but when the massive beast began to move its "slow thighs" the birds became agitated and took off.
		Throughout the poem there are hints as to what the answer to the riddle is. But Yeats doesn't come right out and give the answer to the riddle.
	www.humboldt.edu /~jlw47/thesecondcoming.html (981 words)

	[minstrels] The Second Coming -- William Butler Yeats
		The poem, while it is on one level an earnest description of the change that is occurring to mankind, it is also an earnest illustration of his own paganistic epiphany.
		It talks about the second coming of what many believe would be Christ, however in the end it say "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" This is clearly speaking of the Antichrist that is to claim that he is the true messaiah.
		If the poem were simply an image of the mood of pessimism, and a sense of the apocalyptic born of that mood alone, it wouldn't hold such fascination or significance.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/289.html (6442 words)

	Second Coming, The
		Yeats believed that history was cyclical, and "The Second Coming," with its imagery of swirling chaos and terror, prophesies the cataclysmic end of an era.
		Critics associated the poem with various contemporary calamities, such as the Easter Rising of 1916, the Russian Revolution of 1917, the rise of fascism, and the political decay of eastern Europe.
		In the second stanza, the narrator surmises that this chaos must signal the Second Coming, because 20 centuries have passed since the birth of Jesus Christ.
	search.eb.com /nobel/micro/734_14.html (193 words)

	Yeatslecture
		The subject of the poem is the a) curse of work (the work of writing poetry, the work in being beautiful, and the work of love) and the b) intensely personal revelation of his grief at pursuing this woman who welcomed him as a friend but rejected him as a lover.
		The completed poem has often been taken as a representation of the afterlife, and Yeats wished this interpretation to be possible; but to him, it seems safe to say, 'Byzantium' was primarily a description of the act of making a poem.
		In the second stanza he says that all he can do is to write about things he's already written about, "enumerate old themes"; he then lists some of the subjects he's written about, the Irish legends, the plays he wrote for the Irish National Theater, and Maude Gonne.
	jade.ccccd.edu /Andrade/britlit/yeats/blyeatslect.html (1090 words)

	Yeats' "The Second Coming" on Weaver Moon
		"The Second Coming," in its entirety, is an astounding encapsulation of Yeats' idea of the gyre and his fears about the future of mankind; it is expertly woven with threads of prophetic literary reference and impressive poetic techniques.
		To begin, the gyre, a spiral or repeated circling motion, is a symbol and a concept that Yeats used repeatedly in his poetry and prose, and the poetics of "The Second Coming" illustrate the idea of the gyre.
		According to Donald Davie, "the poem says...that when the superhuman invades the human realm all that the human can say of it is that it is non-human: there can be no discriminating at such a time between subhuman and superhuman, between bestial and divine" (79).
	www.secretdoors.com /weavermoon/secondcoming.html (1652 words)

	"What Rough Beast Indeed?" - Page Four
		I conjecture that the rough beast of "The Second Coming" represents Yeats himself, controlling the demon and beast construct of self by escaping the tyranny of physical existence.
		Introducing the poem with imagery of vacillation suggests that "The Second Coming" may be another "sweet" vision in which Yeats has escaped the tyranny of intellectual self-construct.
		This radical rereading of "The Second Coming" in light of "Demon and Beast" informs canonical "Prayer for My Daughter" and short "A Meditation in Time of War" and "To be carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee." Although I intend no thorough investigation of these poems, I offer these few suggestions for new readings.
	www.richmond.edu /~dhocutt/yeats/yeats4.html (1508 words)

	"The Second Coming" and "A Vision"
		The image of ‘The Second Coming’ is no heraldic emblem but moves, its pitiless inhumanity reflected from its human head, and the reeling of the desert birds echoes the falcon’s towering at the opening of the poem.
		Yeats therefore knows that this coming is of a ‘rough beast’ (another echo of Revelation, see Rev 13), that the beast’s hour has ‘come round at last’, the phrasing indicating the cyclical nature of this hour, and that it slouches towards Bethlehem, but still questions its nature.
		In the poem ‘Leda and the Swan’ (also titled just ‘Leda’), however, he sees the rape of Leda by Zeus in the form of a swan as the heroic age’s key moment: ‘I imagine the annunciation that founded Greece as made to Leda.
	www.yeatsvision.com /SecondNotes.html (1601 words)

	PlanetPapers - The Second Coming Vs. Things Fall Apart
		The contents of "The Second Coming" told of a chaotic world and a base that could not hold because of it's own inner conflicts.
		What makes the poem so synonymous to the book is that in either case it is not possible to stop the changes from happening.
		In "The Second Coming" the loss of control is symbolized by the line "the falcon does not hear the falconer ".
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/940.php (841 words)

	SparkNotes: Yeats's Poetry: "The Second Coming"
		"The Second Coming" is written in a very rough iambic pentameter, but the meter is so loose, and the exceptions so frequent, that it actually seems closer to free verse with frequent heavy stresses.
		Because of its stunning, violent imagery and terrifying ritualistic language, "The Second Coming" is one of Yeats's most famous and most anthologized poems; it is also one of the most thematically obscure and difficult to understand.
		The poem may not have the thematic relevance of Yeats's best work, and may not be a poem with which many people can personally identify; but the aesthetic experience of its passionate language is powerful enough to ensure its value and its importance in Yeats's work as a whole.
	www.sparknotes.com /poetry/yeats/section5.rhtml (654 words)

	Free Essay “Dover Beach” Versus “The Second Coming” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		A 4 page paper on Yeats' "Second Coming" in which the writer attempts to explain the poem's meaning from beginning to end-- focusing on some of the more di...
		The two poems have no fixed form but are modern and leave no rhyme or reason in their content.
		“The Second Coming” is very gloomy and gothic in telling how we continue on in chaos turning one fold of life after another, and ignorant of what we do to bring such chaotic turmoil and blaming too much religion as the background for this turmoil.
	mail.echeat.com /essay.php?t=27629 (596 words)

	Opinions of "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		By describing the 'second coming' of Jesus Christ as a 'rough beast' (line 21) that 'slouches toward Bethlehem' (line 22), Yeats turns even the most religious person inward to truly reexamine his or her actions, to wonder whether or not he or she led a life deserving punishment.
		He then speaks of the Second Coming which is known as Judgement day or the end of the world.
		He thinks that the Second Coming of Christ is near because of the sort of chaos on earth.
	www.eiu.edu /~eng1002/authors/honors/yeatsroe/2ndopinions.html (887 words)

	LESSON PLAN FORMAT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		"The Second Coming," written after the catastrophe of World War I and with communism and fascism rising, is a compelling glimpse of an inhuman world about to be born.
		Second Coming: (2) Second Coming refers to the promised return of Christ on Doomsday, the end of the world; but in Revelation 13 Doomsday is also marked by the appearance of a monstrous beast.
		Yeats imagines that the great heritage of Western European civilization is collapsing, and that the world will be swept by a tide of savagery from the "uncivilized" portions of the globe.
	www.taylor.edu /academics/acaddepts/english/edu312/Lessons/lesson20.htm (888 words)

	THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The second coming of Christ is the blessed hope of the church, the grand climax of the gospel.
		The certainty of the Second Advent is rooted in the trustworthiness of the Scripture.
		He prophesied, "‘Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him’" (Jude 14,15).
	www.totalfaith.org.uk /tracts/return.htm (6053 words)

	The Second Coming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		It is a reference to William Butler Yeats' poem 'The Second Coming'.
		Below is shown a copy of the poem with some notes as to the interpretation which I pinched from somewhere (think it was some lecture on trauma therapy which had used it for an introduction).
		From what I've been told and read, it is essentially a prediction that after 'Twenty Centuries' (or the crucifixion), the 'Second Coming' (the coming of the antichrist) will be upon us.
	www.stonysleep.com /second.html (137 words)

	GoldenEssays - Poetry - Free Essays, Free Research Papers, Free Term Papers, Free Cliff Notes, Essays, Free Book Reports
		Yeats used some of the imagery and context of their previous works to help describe the meaning of “The Second Coming.” When reading “The Second Coming” one’s first impression might be of someone who felt as though they had no control of their life and therefore life was about to come to an end.
		When Yeats repeated the words “the Second Coming” he is either referring to the Christian Second Coming of Christ or the Gnostic Second Birth of their Demigod.
		In the second half of the last stanza Yeats states: “somewhere in the sands of the desert A shape with lion body and head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant birds” (2.5-9).
	www.goldenessays.com /free_essays/3/poetry/second-coming.shtml (4006 words)

	William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Indeed, circles are a repeated motif in "The Second Coming" and in his other publications.
		Thus, although the title and much of the poem's language and imagery echo biblical descriptions, its connection to the vision of St John remains obscure.
		The speaker of the poem seems, at best, doubtful of what he sees: he is a visionary who is unable to understand his vision.
	www.unlv.edu /faculty/droisen/yeats.html (1157 words)

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		But this is not enough, and the second instalment of the composition, almost as long as the first one, although illustrating a different plan, is more centred into the crawling deep ambiances with an almost constant ultra-low wave saturating your speakers, and with more participation of the rainy recordings.
		Yeats' poem expressed his sense of the dissolution of the civilisation of his time; a direct response to the Russian revolution of 1917 when the governmental and social systems of the world seemed to be undergoing profound convulsions, challenging the order of things that be.
		Indeed, this poem has been appropriated by Israeli Jews as a metaphor for the current conflict in their country with its suicide bombings, whipping up the impressionable population into a homicidal frenzy.
	www.iszoloscope.net /iszoloscope/press.html (7469 words)

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	Second Coming
		One of Britain's most mysterious churches, which is said to house the Holy Grail, has become the focus of speculation about the imminent second coming of Jesus Christ.
		In the vaults below the church, 20 barons lie on slabs in their full armour, supposedly preserved in the airless chambers to rise again after the Second Coming.
		They come up to me and say this is the place where Christ will return to.
	www.rosslyntemplars.org.uk /second_coming.htm (444 words)

	'The Second Coming' by W. B. Yeats (1920)
		I think the term is used in falconry to mean the wheeling path a falcon takes to hunt its prey.
		comes to mind, but she had a woman's face.
		Nevertheless the poem has a very steady, even insistent beat.
	perso.wanadoo.fr /william.boyd/poems/yeats001/weekpoem.html (601 words)

	Second - Spirituality and The Second Coming
		In his eloquent poem "The Second Coming" William Butler Yeats uses word choice and phrase combinations to convey to the reader an understanding of his sentiment of impossibility concerning the fate of spirituality for the human race.
		His inner conscious is spread out in the poem for the reader to either accompany him in his darkness or to turn their back and continue to believe in their own form of hopefulness in spirituality.
		Yeats became even more active in his studies of the occult" which was years before he wrote The Second Coming.
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		This is the second in a series of three postings of Frequently Asked Questions for the Talk 2000 forum, which incorporates both the "bit.listserv.2000ad-l" newsgroup and the "2000ad-l@usc.edu" mailing list.
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	second coming - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Second Coming : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
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	Nightwish.com Forum -> The Second Coming
		I don't know WHAT your talking about but i don't care you replied to my poem!! Nocturnal replied to my poem (i've looked at your work and its amazing), so whether what you have said there is good or bad i frankly don't care.
		From: Ukiah, CA Just realising that your poem's title The Second Coming is very similar to the poem I posted by Yeats himself.
		Although I may not be religious now, there is always going to be a chance that my poems may suggest otherwise.
	www.nightwish.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=13652 (1730 words)

	Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
		Yeats was attracted to the spiritual and occult world and fashioned for himself an elaborate mythology to explain human experience.
		(2) Second Coming refers to the promised return of Christ on Doomsday, the end of the world; but in Revelation 13 Doomsday is also marked by the appearance of a monstrous beast.
		The term "second burial" is a delayed funeral ceremony given after the family has had time to prepare.
	www.wsu.edu:8000 /~brians/anglophone/achebe.html (3284 words)

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	"The New Myth For Our Species: The Creation of Consciousness", ratitor's corner, 2001 september equinox
		The questions that have to be answered before the imagination is allowed through are not new but have to be redefined because of their long neglect and the need for answers to be provided in the idiom of our own day.
		This poem, first published in 1921, is astonishing in the way it succinctly strikes the major themes concerning the current state of the collective psyche.
		And when he comes, he will convince the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgement [the opposites and their resolution].
	www.ratical.com /ratitorsCorner/09.22.01.html (18364 words)

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