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Yeats, Eliot, And Apocalyptic Poetry, Nancy Helen Fletcher
Yeats, Eliot, And Apocalyptic Poetry, Nancy Helen Fletcher
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Yeats and Eliot merit comparison because they wrote poetry that has been described as apocalyptic in the same historical period and in the same general geographic area but described entirely different visions. These particular works of Yeats and Eliot are appropriate because they represent two widely varying viewpoints on the causes, nature and desirability of what each author felt would be the coming apocalypse. Therefore, more can be learned by comparing the very different outlooks of the poems than by considering each poem separately.
Yeats sees humanity as both the victim and the beneficiary of a series of inescapable historical …