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"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats <--William Butler Yeats Topics I am Covering: -Define Epigraph -Explain the difference among the terms Epigraph, Epithet, Epitaph -Biography of yeats = Script for The Second Coming Powerpoint = Slide One: Biography of Yeats -Yeats(pictured on the far left) was an Irish poet who was one of the most famous poets of the 20th Century Literature. He started writing simple poems at a young age. -Yeats was born in Sandymount, County Dublin, Ireland. His dad was John Butler Years and he died in the younger years of Yeats’ life. His mom was Susan Mary Pollexfen who came from a very wealthy family, and she was the one who had the family moved closer to her relatives in Sligo. This is where Yeats remembers truly growing up and calls it his hometown. He had a brother named Jack, and two sisters named Elizabeth and Susan Mary. His first poems were “John Sherman” and “Dhoya”. -He was an Irish Senator for 2 terms and helped start and keep going the Irish Literary Revival. -He won the Nobel Prize in Literature for “inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation.” This prize made him the first Irishman honored. -His poem “The Second Coming” with a picture of it on the far left, was one of his most famous works.

Slide Two: Epigraph -An epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component. Also referred to as a prologue. -Also known as epigraphy as well which looks like ancient writing on a cement wall, or engraving on stone.

Slide Three: What’s The Difference? -As I said before, an Epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document. -An Epithet is a descriptive word that takes the place of a name and is in common usage. It also has a descriptive purpose. As shown in the picture “Jeeze” is also a descriptive word and it takes place of the proper name Jesus. -An Epitaph is short text that honors a dead or deceased person, like the inscription on a tombstone or a short summary of the person’s life at a memorial. As picture in this man’s tombstone it says when he died, how old he was when he died, and in this special case his children’s deaths.

Slide Four: Things Fall Apart -The poem “The Second Coming” has in its third line, “…things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;…” which connects it to the book //Things Fall Apart.// -The main character pictured here on the right is Okonkwo, a young, strong and powerful man in the town of Umuofia. He has many wives and children, and also many yams making him very wealthy.

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