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“The Second Coming”: dire prophecies.
But haven’t there always been prophecies of The End?
But it’s not the end: it is the decline of one age, and the rise of another.
But what other? What rough beast slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? (And now you understand that allusion that a scholar might make.)
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/official-prophecy-of-doom-global-warming-will-cause-widespread-conflict-displace-millions-of-people-and-devastate-the-global-economy-9198171.html
Shakespeare vis-vis hip-hop
A TED talk exploring syllabication and beat and substance.
Bear through the quiz and listen.
The symbol system of “The Second Coming.”
A brief scan of the graphics on this site offers an idea of a “gyre” as a two-thousand year cycle.
http://www.yeatsvision.com/History.html#Cycles
For an idea of how many essays have been penned about Yeats’ symbolism and “The Second Coming,” this is a link to a 394-page book of essays that is quite in-depth.
http://www.clemson.edu/cedp/cudp/pubs/vision/vision_book.pdf
Lastly, look at the wikipedia entry to see an example of how wiki can be quite tepid. (Even Schmoop beats them in this particular case.)
The architecture and acoustics of the Greek teatron
The architecture and acoustics of the Greek teatron
Informative.
History of Greek Theater 1 of 2
History of Greek Theater 1 of 2
The graphics might look simplistic, but pay attention to the lecture.
Kingsley Andersen 