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Genesis To Revelations Allusion
Between the symbolism and allusions, the poem covers the entire Bible, from Genesis to Revelations. In the first stanza, “mere anarchy” refers to the flood in Genesis. The last stanza refers to the anti-christ and the time of the apocalypse. In the final lines Yeats describes the sinners as “rough beasts” dragging themselves to Bethlehem for the second coming of Christ.
The body of the poem describes the decay of society. It refers to the non-believers, or atheists and the real problem, the sinners. However, he does point out that even Christ was tempted in the desert, hell on earth. He uses a metaphor to allude to the Great Sphinx (The body of a lion and the head of a man), which symbolizes the devil’s home. Furthermore, this is
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