The Second Coming
The key points, themes and comparisons for "The Second Coming" by Yeats
- Created by: Joshua Payne
- Created on: 15-05-12 21:07
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2. The gyre in this poem is a metaphor for what?
- Periods of History
- Nature
- The success of Irish Nationalists
- Yeats
3. "...moving its slow thighs" is an image of "thighs" being used to present horror being unleashed on civilisation; can be compared to what poem?
- Leda and the Swan
- Wild Swans at Coole
- September 1913
- Easter 1916
- The Stolen Child
4. The "falconer" in this poem represents what character?
- Mother Nature
- God
- Yeats
- An Irish Nationalist
- The British Government
5. The constant change in rhyme scheme and free verse represents constant chaos.
- True
- False
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