In 1919 William Butler Yeats published a poem called "The Second Coming." ... Yeats' poem "The Second Coming," depicts the approach of a new world order and demonstrates the concept that change is inevitable. ... Yeats felt that because of World War 1, Europe was left in complete chaos, and total anarchy was released upon the world. Yeats is trying to tell the reader that the society that was left in the wake of the war is already beginning to fall apart, and The Second Coming will occur. ... Yeats documents the struggle for Europeans after World War 1, and the intense chaos that people f...

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• Grade Level: High School

Things Fall Apart The book Things Fall Apart , by Chinua Achebe , is very similar to the poem , "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats. ... Yeats shows this change by describing the conversions our world, as a global community, made throughout history . ... Chinua Achebe and William Butler Yeats make this idea understandable to us by using it in their works of art. ...

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Yeats The first four lines of, "The Second Coming," by William Butler Yeats ring true throughout, "Things Fall Apart," and served as inspiration for Cinua Achebe. ... Yeats) describes just how sudden the change was in Umuofia. ... Yeats) Related to the Commissioner and his messengers. ... Yeats) These lines perfectly explain change that the Ibo people were put through. ... Yeats) Is parallel to the white man's ideas being reborn in Umuofia. ...

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The Dogs of War In his poem, "The Second Coming", William Butler Yeats uses strong, precise syntax to make the reader feel the intensity of his words while conveying a dark atmosphere that gives the reader an uncertain and seemingly hopeless sense of what is to come. ... Particularly in the first stanza, Yeats uses punctuation to separate each point that he is trying to project. ... Yeats uses these types of phrases to demonstrate just how difficult it was to live with oneself in those times. ... I believe this is how Yeats saw the world. ... In the last two lines of the first stanza, ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School