Analyzing Figures of Speech in Yeats’s Poem The Second Coming

Abstract

This article attempts to analyze figures of speech in Yeats’s poem The Second Coming. Figures of speech are literary devices that turn an ordinary language into a special language through an artful deviation from the ordinary or principal signification of a word, and through an artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words. The article writer underscores some words and verse lines that function as figures of speech in the poem. He tries his best to describe the figures of speech which have become the foundations for the themes of the poems. This article is significant to teachers and students who are interested in learning figures of speech in literary genres.