Wednesday, April 13, 2011

William Butler Yeats

"The Second Coming" is a great piece to have along with Achebe's Things Fall Apart.  This is simply because Achebe pulls the title from Yeats' "The Second Coming".  To focus on "The Second Coming", it seems as if the last few lines are really focusing on the Second Coming of Jesus.  The last 2 lines, "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"  The question lies in, what if it is about the anti-Christ rather than the Second Coming of Jesus?

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