A picture of the New Age: The second study of the American Yeats
Yeats wrote "Second Coming" in 1919, a particularly frustrating moment in history. Europeans were shocked and cynical about World War I. Yeats's hometown, Ireland is on a civil war lunch. Russia's old order has just been overthrown by a revolution, and Yeats's fondness for nobility is feared to spread across the continent and around the globe.
Yeats's view of the world's problems is not what many people quote him tonight. First of all, he is not a Christian. He dabbled in sanity and supernatural, and thought that the Christian idea of its time had passed. The second coming is not as its title and Bethlehem reference may be presented in return for an account of the Messiah. Born not like Christ. …show more content…
Yeats was attracted by fascism, and he resisted the progress of adults with the opposition of young people. He once wrote: "I am satisfied in some public disasters, and I feel an ecstasy in the contemplation of the ruins."
The first eight lines "Second Coming" as Ms. Vendler notes, is the philosophical part of poetry. A rational, thoughtful observer, an authoritative scholar, the description of the world is clear, if it is ominous terminology. "The Falcon cannot hear the Eagle" depicts a vivid image of the natural order. In the world, just anarchy will be destroyed, almost factually.
But after eight lines, the poem suddenly became a Ms. Vendler's Note "Oracle". Like the Oracle, Yeats said. "Of course, the second coming is at hand," he said, but there is no doubt that the meaning here is the opposite: The following is completely uncertain. Yeats continues to proclaim "somewhere in the desert, a shape with a lion's body and a man's head" indefinite creatures in an indefinite
Yeats wrote "Second Coming" in 1919, a particularly frustrating moment in history. Europeans were shocked and cynical about World War I. Yeats's hometown, Ireland is on a civil war lunch. Russia's old order has just been overthrown by a revolution, and Yeats's fondness for nobility is feared to spread across the continent and around the globe.
Yeats's view of the world's problems is not what many people quote him tonight. First of all, he is not a Christian. He dabbled in sanity and supernatural, and thought that the Christian idea of its time had passed. The second coming is not as its title and Bethlehem reference may be presented in return for an account of the Messiah. Born not like Christ. …show more content…
Yeats was attracted by fascism, and he resisted the progress of adults with the opposition of young people. He once wrote: "I am satisfied in some public disasters, and I feel an ecstasy in the contemplation of the ruins."
The first eight lines "Second Coming" as Ms. Vendler notes, is the philosophical part of poetry. A rational, thoughtful observer, an authoritative scholar, the description of the world is clear, if it is ominous terminology. "The Falcon cannot hear the Eagle" depicts a vivid image of the natural order. In the world, just anarchy will be destroyed, almost factually.
But after eight lines, the poem suddenly became a Ms. Vendler's Note "Oracle". Like the Oracle, Yeats said. "Of course, the second coming is at hand," he said, but there is no doubt that the meaning here is the opposite: The following is completely uncertain. Yeats continues to proclaim "somewhere in the desert, a shape with a lion's body and a man's head" indefinite creatures in an indefinite