Symbols are extremely important in all literature. They give the reader a depth in the writing whether it is through poetry or a novel symbolism can make or break a written text. In “Second Coming” Yeats uses symbolism in his title as a away to allude to the new testaments Book of Revelations. Further more Yeats uses symbolism to reflect some of the more complicated points in his poem like the how in the end of days only anarchy and chaos will be left and there will be no order and piece. What’s more interesting is Yeats’ decision to make Jesus not into the perfect human he is normally portrayed as but instead as a deformed and hideous creature that symbolizes how the end of days will not be beautiful event in which the good float to heaven and the rest parish in hell but instead will be a gruesome and sick journey where the world morphs and collapses into what people would describe as hell.
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