How does the idea of the second coming become ironic in the second stanza?


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Are you asking about Wm. Butler Yeat's poem The Second Coming? 2nd stanza: Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. Notice how these two lines are almost exactly the same. This is where the speaker tells us what he thinks is going on, but the repetition means that he’s not sure & is slowly trying to figure things out. It’s a revelation which is when the true meaning of something is revealed. It’s a revelation according to the most reputable source for these kinds of things: the Book of Revelation. all this violence and moral confusion means the Second Coming is at hand.

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