Rough Beast Yeats

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The Promises of salvation has brought out the barbaric nature in people and so being condemned to these dreadful conditions, the “rough beast” will symbolize the changes that Yeats saw coming after World War I. William Butler Yeats induces revelation, nightmare, and pitiless to convey a feeling of darkness and despair. These quotes affirm importance because it contributes to the readers understanding of the main idea of the possible dreadfulness that lays ahead with the second coming. The author implies biblical references with “Bethleham to be born, and the shape of a lion body and head of a man,” to convey a sense of what he sees is the second coming. This quote illustrates importance to the main idea of the promises of salvation.