ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -’The Second Coming’ is clearly one of those poems of the last two decades of Yeats’s life in which he wrote with depth of vision and authority of expression. I like to categorise a number of Yeats’s major 20th century works as his ‘history poems’.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Irish backdrop to ‘The Second Coming’ can be traced back to 1916 when Yeats described himself as deeply moved by the Rising, but also “very despondent about the future.” As things developed, he saw Ireland drifting into a dangerous condition with “wild bloods” in the ascendant.

Detailed explanation-3: -"The Second Coming” is a poem that was written by Irish poet W. B. Yeats in 1919, first printed in The Dial in November 1920 and included in his 1921 collection of verses Michael Robartes and the Dancer.

Detailed explanation-4: -"The Second Coming” is one of W.B. Yeats’s most famous poems. Written in 1919 soon after the end of World War I, it describes a deeply mysterious and powerful alternative to the Christian idea of the Second Coming-Jesus’s prophesied return to the Earth as a savior announcing the Kingdom of Heaven.

Detailed explanation-5: -blank verse, unrhymed iambic pentameter, the preeminent dramatic and narrative verse form in English and also the standard form for dramatic verse in Italian and German.