The Second ComingBy: William Yeats

Autobiography Born in County Dublin, Ireland 1865 Studied in London, England 1867 Attended the Metropolitan School of Art, 1884 – 1886 Co-founded the Rhymer’s Club with Ernest Rhys, 1890 Met Maud Gonne, a 23-year-old heiress, 1889 Proposed and rejected multiple times, 1891, 1899,

1900 & 1901 Yeats established the Irish Literary Theater, 1899 Married to Georgië Hyde-Lees, October 20, 1917 Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, December 1923 Appointed to the first Irish Senate for two terms,

1922 & 1925. Died in Menton, France, January 28, 1939

Structure✛Free Verse Poem & Iambic

pentameter ✛22 lines w/ octet & 14-line stanza✛Pessimistic to faithful tonal

alternations✛Apocalyptic Theme with Biblical

references