The Second Coming

William Butler Yeats

22 pages 44-minute read

William Butler Yeats

The Second Coming

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1919

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The falcon circles in ever-widening gyres as civilization teeters on the brink of transformation. Test your understanding of Yeats's haunting vision of a world where the center cannot hold and something vast and mysterious stirs in the desert sands.

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