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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
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.)
Kingsley Andersen 