Summary of the poem “The Second Coming” by W.B. Yeats "The Second Coming" is one of the most famous and frequently quoted poems in the Western literature. Obviously, the title refers to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ to Earth at the Last Judgment. In the first stanza, Yeats describes the anarchy and disorder in the world. Chaos rules everywhere, there are no settled rules or laws: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
He makes a reference to a Baptist cleansing ritual: “The ceremony of innocence is drowned”. The ritual purifies a person, who is welcomed to church. ...
