I really loved this poem; basically anything that bashes society, government and religion I will find very amusing and appealling. "The Second Coming" I felt dealth with the threats that christianity/religion and government/society bring to the human race. First of all, in past personal research, I have concluded that people are not meant to be organized for any other purpose than to survive. Now that we have become a materialistic/consumer society, we no longer focus on survival (and I don't consider war a survival tactic). We have basically, in my opinion and that of Yeats, set ourselves in a course bound for self-destruction.
i agree with sarahs interpretation of the poem. Humanity has definetly set ourselves up on a path of self destruction littered with our overactive spending habits and consuming of the earths natural resources and disposing with our waste with the out of sight out of mind concept. before we know it our habits will consume our way of life. The second coming will be a huge movement by nature and/or God to revert civilizations destructive ways.
I really like what W.B. Yeats is going after in this particular poem. He is making a wake up statement for society to heed. I am not particularly a religious person my self but his points are still just as powerful to me in spite of this. Society is definitely on a very quick path to its own self-destruction. This path like Yeats says is truly due for a consequence like the "Second Coming." One of my favorite books that I read in high school got its title from this poem. The book is called Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and it is a comment on apartheid which is a situation very relevant to what this poem is trying to say. I really enjoyed this book and I encourage everyone to give it a read.
- “Look, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who is alert and remains clothed so that he may not go naked, and they see his shame.” Revelations 16:15.
- “Look, I am coming quickly! Blessed is the one who keeps the prophetic words of this book.” Revelations 22:7.
- “Look! I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me to repay each person according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Blessed are those who was their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates. Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying. I, Jesus, have sent My angel to attest these things to you for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright Morning Star.” Revelation 22:12-16
With these Bible versus they help this poem come clear to me.
i agree with her and those are some really good verses from the bible and after reading them i went back and re-read the poem. i didnt really like this poem. it was kinda hard for me to understand.
one of my favorite topis in poetry is apocholypse. it seems so eminent as it has throughout he centuries. cries of global warming and global war scare everyone. there have always been rumours of war or of the seci=ond comming, of some destruction. it is one cycle of life: following creation there must be destruction mustnt there. I think we are in the midst of the apocolypse and we alwaus have and will be. Destruction happens as part of creation and they are inseperable. but is it not a mind-full to think about a biblical apocolypse with complete destruction. would a new begining be a sad day for the survivors or a liberation?
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I really loved this poem; basically anything that bashes society, government and religion I will find very amusing and appealling. "The Second Coming" I felt dealth with the threats that christianity/religion and government/society bring to the human race. First of all, in past personal research, I have concluded that people are not meant to be organized for any other purpose than to survive. Now that we have become a materialistic/consumer society, we no longer focus on survival (and I don't consider war a survival tactic). We have basically, in my opinion and that of Yeats, set ourselves in a course bound for self-destruction.
i agree with sarahs interpretation of the poem. Humanity has definetly set ourselves up on a path of self destruction littered with our overactive spending habits and consuming of the earths natural resources and disposing with our waste with the out of sight out of mind concept. before we know it our habits will consume our way of life. The second coming will be a huge movement by nature and/or God to revert civilizations destructive ways.
I really like what W.B. Yeats is going after in this particular poem. He is making a wake up statement for society to heed. I am not particularly a religious person my self but his points are still just as powerful to me in spite of this. Society is definitely on a very quick path to its own self-destruction. This path like Yeats says is truly due for a consequence like the "Second Coming." One of my favorite books that I read in high school got its title from this poem. The book is called Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and it is a comment on apartheid which is a situation very relevant to what this poem is trying to say. I really enjoyed this book and I encourage everyone to give it a read.
- “Look, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who is alert and remains clothed so that he may not go naked, and they see his shame.” Revelations 16:15.
- “Look, I am coming quickly! Blessed is the one who keeps the prophetic words of this book.” Revelations 22:7.
- “Look! I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me to repay each person according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Blessed are those who was their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates. Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying. I, Jesus, have sent My angel to attest these things to you for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright Morning Star.” Revelation 22:12-16
With these Bible versus they help this poem come clear to me.
i agree with her and those are some really good verses from the bible and after reading them i went back and re-read the poem. i didnt really like this poem. it was kinda hard for me to understand.
one of my favorite topis in poetry is apocholypse. it seems so eminent as it has throughout he centuries. cries of global warming and global war scare everyone. there have always been rumours of war or of the seci=ond comming, of some destruction. it is one cycle of life: following creation there must be destruction mustnt there. I think we are in the midst of the apocolypse and we alwaus have and will be. Destruction happens as part of creation and they are inseperable. but is it not a mind-full to think about a biblical apocolypse with complete destruction. would a new begining be a sad day for the survivors or a liberation?
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