the second coming
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The Second Coming. By: William Yeat s. 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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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