The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats

from Poetry Daily · host Yashvi Agrawal

The poem's first stanza describes a world of chaos, confusion, and pain. The second, longer stanza imagines the speaker receiving a vision of the future, but this vision replaces Jesus's heroic return with what seems to be the arrival of a grotesque beast. 

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