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The poem, "The Second Coming", by William Butler Yeats describes the atmosphere in post-war (WW1) Europe and how the Christian era world was coming to an end.

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"Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"; failure of government

"Surely some revelation is at hand;/Surely the Second Coming is at hand"; new beliefs are coming

"Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,/And what rough beast, its hour come round at last"; the Earth is falling apart (wars) and there is no sense of universal values

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"The Second Coming" is thought to be a statement about the contrary forces at work in history, and about the conflict between the modern and ancient worlds.

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haughty, confessional, prophetic...

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