Zusammenfassung der Ressource
THE SECOND COMING
- Written in 1919 - The aftermath of the first
World War
- Uses Christian imagery regarding the
Apocalypse and Second coming
- SECOND COMING - Concept in
Christianity regarding a future
return of Jesus to Earth
- APOCALYPSE - Prophetic revelation/The end
of the world
- Modernist read the poem as a dirge for the decline of European civilisaton
- Yeats expresses apocalyptic mystical theories
- GYRE - A Historical cycle of about 2000 years
- Tension between ancient & modern
worlds
- Horror or what man-kind has released
- Could be a refrence that religion
is dying
- Describing the 19th century