Almost 100 years ago the Irish poet William Butler Yeats wrote “The Second Coming.” It is a strange, nightmarish poem telling of events both seen and unseen — of an ominous elemental horror that is ...
NPR's Scott Simon reflects on what a 100 year-old poem by William Butler Yeats means today. Opinion: Reading William Butler Yeats 100 Years Later William Butler Yeats wrote "The Second Coming" a ...
Daljit Nagra selects Things Fall Apart featuring WB Yeats' 1919 poem The Second Coming. Presented by Roy Foster. From 2015. Show more Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects ...
The Boston Globe: As things fall apart, Yeats’ 1919 poem ‘The Second Coming’ seems as timely as ever
As things fall apart, Yeats’ 1919 poem ‘The Second Coming’ seems as timely as ever
November 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of one of the most famous and influential poems of the 20th century. It is titled “The Second Coming.” It was written in 1919 by the Irish ...
I forwarded an email to my friend Sam with the note, “Want to go to this?” “This” was something called an interactive concert featuring “The Second Coming,” Irish poet William Butler Yeats’s ode to ...
William Butler Yeats wrote "The Second Coming" a hundred years ago, when the world seemed on the verge. Perhaps like now, perhaps like many years. The losses of the First World War were still ...
No poem has been quoted and applied to the American dilemma in Iraq with quite the frequency of this one. And most of the citations show a crude and self-serving understanding of Yeats. On the other ...