Question

In "The Second Coming," Yeats alludes to ________. Question 1 options: the Jewish notion of a single God who delivered the Israelites from slavery in Egypt the ancient Greek notion of many gods who treat human beings as pawns the pagan notion of an afterlife that is wholly different from life on earth the Christian notion of an apocalypse that involves the return of a messiah or savior

Answer 1

In "The Second Coming", Yeats alludes to the second coming of Jesus Christ and the book of Revelations. His theory on gyres and human life cycles link to this idea that history will repeat itself. There was a WWI so there will be a WWII.