After reading the assigned material of Yeats, I chose The Second Coming to write my blog about. This poem is about change. Yeats has inmind that a change will occur when a upside down society finally self-destructs. He relates this change in a christian sensewith the phrase, the second coming of christ. He is comparing the change to be as important to or as the second coming of christ referred to in the poem as Spiriyus Mundi. "The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out when a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi troubles my sight;"(Yeats 1705). When he speaks of the creature that is part man and part animal it seems that Yeats has the Book of Revelation from the Bible in mind. You can read about many like images in Revelation. There is a tragic doomsday feeling from his writing.Nothing can stop the change. The new ways will rise up as the old ways die. "That twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmares by a rocking cradle"(Yeats1705). The rocking cradle speaks of the new born ideas that will destory the old society.