How Does Yeats Use Allusion In The Second Coming

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In The poem Yeats uses, “The Second Coming”. Yeats uses Allusion Device to tell the reader how the world would become, that no one will be coming back to save society. One example is shown in Lines 4-6 Where he states mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere. The ceremony of innocence is drowned; these lines contain two more allusions to the bible. First the word “Anarchy” calls to mind the reign of Satan on earth before Christ comes backs. And blood dimmed tide so many people had died during that time and the word Tide means how much blood was slayed. Lines 22 Where he states slouches towards Bethlehem to be burn that quote comes The Bible, Where Christ Was born in Bethlehem in That example that

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