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| Day 26 - William Butler Yeats  | Mystical/historical Irish poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939) was both the master of traditional verse forms and the idol of the Modernist poets who followed him. He is represented in A Month of Poems by one of his later, darker poems, and we have chosen to give you the email sequence in chronological order—that is why his poem appears so late in the month. | | "The Second Coming"
You’ve heard this masterpiece quoted many times—a few years ago by A.J. in The Sopranos, trying to apprehend the nightmares of this 21st century we live in and having no words of his own. William Butler Yeats wrote “The Second Coming” soon after the end of World War I, and the poem offers an unmatched vision of apocalypse and mystery.
| "Things Fall Apart," Study Guide to "The Second Coming"
Our notes on its context, its form and the powerful images it sets loose in the world can help you arrive at your own interpretation of this poem that is resonating down the decades.
| For further reading: Profile of Yeats
His childhood, Yeats as a young poet, Maud Gonne, the Irish Literary Revival and the Abbey Theater, Yeats and Pound, his mysticism, marriage and later years...
| Library: Poems by W.B. Yeats
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