Yeats’s Poetry
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The Second Coming
by nataliadelina, January 24, 2013
The Second Coming has many biblical references within the poem in my point of view. It talks about ideas from the book of revelations. In revelations an angel "opened an abyss"(Revelation 9:2) in which Yeats describes a "widening gyre"- a deep and bottomless pit. The bible also describes the world in its last days filled with: "abomination filled with desolation)". Yeats also discribes a world filled with chaos: "falcon cannot hear the falconer, anarchy, innocence drowned, best lack all conviction, blood- dimmed tide, and passionate intensit... Read more→
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0Yeats help
by marnie94, April 11, 2013
This might give you a bit of context...
http://marnielangeroodiblog.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/poetry-makes-nothing-happen/
Good luck, and please follow!







