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Things Fall Apart: A Guide to William Butler Yeats' "The Second Coming"

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By Bob Holman & Margery Snyder, About.com



“The Second Coming” has resonated in cultures all over the world since its first publication, and many writers have alluded to it in their own work. A wonderful visual demonstration of this fact is online at Fu Jen University: a rebus of the poem with its words represented by the covers of the many books that quote them in their titles.

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