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The Second Coming John Butler Yeats Analysis

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Often when teens here the word poetry many of them tend to drift off to sleep. However here is one man 's story of how he too was more into art and music until he had a shift in attitude. He then went on to claim many words and gain much recognition for his wondrous works before he laid to rest for the final time. William Butler Yeats was born on June 13, 1865, in Dublin, Ireland. He was the oldest of four children of John Butler Yeats, a portrait artist. John Yeats had a forceful personality (O 'Donnell). His personal philosophy was a blend of aestheticism and atheism. William felt it is influence much later as it showed up in his interest in magic and the occult sciences and in his highly original system of aesthetics. His father added …show more content…

Yeats has brought a new music upon the harp, and that one man seldom leads two movements to triumph, and that it is quite enough that he should have brought in the sound of keening and the skirl of the Irish ballads (Chang) In the absence of a thorough examination of the impact on "The Second Coming" of Yeats 's historical thought, it is arguable that the meaning the poet intended has not only been consistently overlooked, but that in general the poem has been taken to mean the opposite of what he intended. This essay offers a reassessment of the thought and imagery, of the response Yeats wished to evoke, and of the antithetical rhetoric of his dialectical view of history.The text provides a striking example of the synthetic technique which produced some of Yeats 's finest poems, one which condenses into imagery as much of the poet 's thought as is possible but which also creates interpretative problems of which he was fully aware and which he attributed to the compressed, logical rigor of the ideas: "It is hard for a writer, who has spent much labor upon his style, to remember that thought, which seems to him natural and logical like that style, may be unintelligible to others" (Variorum) However,Yeats did not believe his philosophy to be either obscure or

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