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William Butler Yeats' poem "The Second Coming" is filled with metaphoric imagery that reflects the tumultuous times of Yeats' Ireland as well as its actual physical geography.
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William Butler Yeats' poem "The Second Coming" is filled with metaphoric imagery that reflects the tumultuous times of Yeats' Ireland as well as its actual physical geography. As a poet, Yeats was greatly in tune with his Irish roots and brings those strands together often in his work. Yeats was born in 1865 in Dublin, Ireland. He was the son of a painter and grandson to a rector in the Church of Ireland. At a very early age, young Yeats was exposed the myths and fairy tales of the Irish countryside while spending time at his grandparents' home. (Cahill 20) It is obvious that much of his poetry, especially that written during his early years, was written out of the Irish influence of his childhood. Jonathan Allison in his essay "W.B. Yeats, Space, and Cultural Nationalism" states that, "Homelands are important bases for ethnic survival, not only because...
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