How effective is W.B Yeats in cautioning the modern reader on the melancholic, the frustrating and the falling elements in life, in his poems 'The Second Coming,' and 'A Prayer for My Daughter?'

... Q. How effective is W.B Yeats in cautioning the modern reader on the melancholic, the frustrating and the falling elements in life, in his poems 'The Second Coming,' and 'A Prayer for My Daughter?' A. William Butler Yeats was a 20th Century poet. Poets at that time focused on the background of man and war, and how war has taken away the youth and deterioration of man and humanity. These poems also show how man has been reduced to a meaningless cause and how he has lost all the qualities of goodness and superiority. There are many other writers and poets that concentrate on war. One such writer that I have found is 'Earnest Hemmingway' who was a soldier in the Second World War and he presented his experience in the novel which he titled 'Farewell to Arms.' The novel presents the horrors of war and humans inability to lead a

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