The Second Coming

Darkness of human kind is the main common theme between Lord of the Flies and The Second Coming. The Second Coming, a poem by William Yeats, does not have as strong a portrayal of the darkness of human kind than in Lord of the Flies, a novel by William Golding. With no government presence, disarray can spread amongst a group of people quite quickly. Once the unruliness spreads it does not take long for humans to realize that they have the potential to kill fellow living things or people.…

twentieth century contained a variety of totalitarian governments such as Hitler’s Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union. In the hands of leaders like these men, millions of innocent people have suffered. George Orwell’s 1984 and W.B. Yeats’s “The Second Coming” are two works of literature written with the sole purpose of warning society about the danger of oppressive dictatorships. Both authors create hypothetical scenarios involving the cruelty of all-powerful tyrants. In their respective…

Symbolism in Yeats’ “The Second Coming” Final Draft Symbolism in Yeats’ “The Second Coming” Yeats is accounted for his brilliancy in writing poems that have symbolism either in the form of sounds, colours or forms because of their preordained energies or because of long association, that evoke indefinable and yet precise emotions. One of the most captivating things about W.B. Yeats' poetry in general and The Second Coming in particular is its rich symbolism. The Second Coming truly…

dialogue had died down and no new themes or ideas were coming to me. At this point I did what Nancy Gross suggests and listed out my possible guesses for the meaning of this text. • it is a literal view of what it will be like before Jesus second coming of judgement. • It is about the hope of the coming of Christ • It is about the action needed before Christ coming again • It has something to do with eschatological theology and the idea of Christ coming to us again and again At this point I…

Introduction Throughout the book of 1 Thessalonians, the author is writing a letter to the church in Thessalonica. In this letter the author is speaking about several significant parts of faith and Christianity that the thessalonians are lacking in or do not understand. In this particular passage, the author is speaking about Jesus’ return, how that affects the lives and souls of those who have passed away as well as the return of Jesus and how it will take place and is serving as a reminder to…

William Butler Yeats’’ famous poem The Second Coming illustrates a scary prediction of the occurrence when the world comes to an end. Obviously, with the title The Second Coming the assumption is as if the poem discloses Jesus Christ returning as the Bible states, but Yeats’ poem is not about Jesus Christ return. Beginning in the first stanza, Yeats’’ describes the anarchy and disorder in the world. He used gyre to depict his vision of the world as a storm or chaos as a tornado or funnel. Chaos…

The poems Africa and Flying Man by Rabindranath Tagore show the negative effects of man-made destruction. The destruction is the way they have mistreated the people of Africa, as well as changing the way nature used to be, from the peaceful harmonious nature to inventing more modernised technologies, making man seem more arrogant. The focus of the two poems is how man has destroyed the earth with their actions, and the poet does this by using imagery and figurative language. In Africa, Tagore…

words “blood-dimmed tide,” (Stanza 1, line 5) shows the perspective of the animals which didn’t get to the ark. This represents the fall of religion and how the story differs from the Book of Revelations. Yeats shows his connection to occult in the second stanza. He refers to “Spiritus Mundi,” (stanza 2, line 12) a spirit of the world. He shows how the spirit of the world is no longer entirely sane and is now troubled. Line 6 stanza 2 is: “A shape with lion body and head of a man.” This is where…

countless times throughout the centuries. Some say a meteor will strike or global warming will cause our planet to explode, while others talk of a great ice age that will cover the earth in silent frostiness. Robert Frost’s “Fire and Ice” and “The Second Coming,” by William Butler Yeats, are poems that seek to explore the apocalyptic destruction of the world from different viewpoints. Although they both share the ‘end of time’ theme, the speakers come from diverse backgrounds which influence…

Introduction Many people often think that there is only one real world that has many forms of culture, which is the one that we live in everyday. Tom Boellstorff, the author of Coming to Age in Second Life, is not one of those people. In this ethnography, Boellstorff challenges that there is more than one real world and that virtual worlds have culture just as places in the real world do. The topic of virtual worlds or virtual reality is becoming more and more prominent in this age of…