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Second Coming Tone

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William Butler Yeats’ was born 1865 and lived through the treacherous World War 2. His experiences influenced his thoughts and writing. In William Butler Yeats’ “The Second Coming”, the poem portrays a society that is falling apart due to a demolition of war or a return of a powerful spirit.
In “The Second Coming”, William Butler Yeats used many examples of diction to set the tone or mood of the poem. For instance, in the third stanza, Yeats” states “the darkness drops” and “vexed to nightmare”. These word choices produced the suspenseful and frightening atmosphere after reading the poem. When the author says “the darkness drops”, this conveys that the society is experiencing a world there’s negative surroundings and sadness. Also, when “vexed
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