THE SECOND COMING

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Mind Map on THE SECOND COMING, created by anuabolaji on 01/03/2015.
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THE SECOND COMING
  1. Written in 1919 - The aftermath of the first World War
    1. Uses Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse and Second coming
      1. SECOND COMING - Concept in Christianity regarding a future return of Jesus to Earth
        1. APOCALYPSE - Prophetic revelation/The end of the world
        2. Modernist read the poem as a dirge for the decline of European civilisaton
          1. Yeats expresses apocalyptic mystical theories
            1. GYRE - A Historical cycle of about 2000 years
              1. Tension between ancient & modern worlds
                1. Horror or what man-kind has released
                  1. Could be a refrence that religion is dying
                    1. Describing the 19th century
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