![]() The poem is also connected to the 1918–1919 flu pandemic. Yeats used the phrase "the second birth" instead of "the Second Coming" in his first drafts. ![]() The poem was written in 1919 in the aftermath of the First World War and the beginning of the Irish War of Independence in January 1919, which followed the Easter Rising in April 1916, and before the British government had decided to send in the Black and Tans to Ireland. It is considered a major work of modernist poetry and has been reprinted in several collections, including The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. The poem uses Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse and Second Coming to describe allegorically the atmosphere of post-war Europe. Yeats in 1919, first printed in The Dial in November 1920 and included in his 1921 collection of verses Michael Robartes and the Dancer. ![]() " The Second Coming" is a poem that was written by Irish poet W. Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,Īnd what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desertĪ shape with lion body and the head of a man, The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out The best lack all conviction, while the worst The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere ![]() Things fall apart the centre cannot hold ![]()
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