A nice article about Yeats's poem, "The Second Coming," was published by the Wall Street Journal on July 24, 2015. You can read the article by Googling "A Poet’s Apocalyptic Vision by David Lehman". I like the poem, but have not studied it, so I found it helpful to hear the poem was published in 1919, after World War I. That helps explain why this poem has a dark view. David Lehman wrote a nice essay and I recommend it.
Robert
You can read the poem online here: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172062
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