Teacher Guide

The Second Coming Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Students interested in "The Second Coming" should look into collections of Yeats's work, including The Tower (1928), Michael Robartes and the Dancer, and The Winding Stair and Other Poems. In these collections, students will find seminal poems such as "Easter, 1916." Other important Modernist poems to consider are T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, and students may consider works from other Irish Modernist writers, namely James Joyce and Máirtín Ó Cadhain.

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