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A CRITIQUE STUDY OF W. B. YEATS'S THE SECOND COMING

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  • Review Of Research

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  • 2012
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Abstract (Original Language): 
W B Yeats is considered one of the finest poets in the English language. He was devoted to the cause of Irish nationalism and played a significant part in the Celtic Revival Movement, promoting the literary heritage of Ireland & ancient Irish sagas. Magic and occult theory is also important elements of his own in Yeats's work, such in lyric poem, "The Second Coming" is viewed as a prophetic poem that envisions the close of the Christian epoch and the violent birth of a new age. The poem's title makes reference to the Biblical reappearance of Christ. Other symbols in the poem are drawn from mythology, the occult, and Yeats's view of history as defined in his cryptic prose volume A Vision.
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