Yeats wrote The Second Coming in 1919.
Betwen 1815 (the end of the Napoleonic Wars) and 1914 (WWI) Europe had enjoyed almost a century without major conflict: this was an exceptionally long period of peace by European standards.
Then in 1914 the World War, the Irish Easter Rising (of special interest to Yeats), the Russian Revolution, the rise of the Spartacist (Communist) movement in Germany (and soon after the rise of Fascism in both Germany and Italy) - all followed each other rapidly.
Yeats had grown up in a war-free Europe - suddenly everybody was fighting.
There was also the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1916-20 - which killed more people than WWI had done.
As Yeats says: 'things fall apart'.
The Ceremony of Innocence would refer to how things were before the chaos started around 1912 (there were several years of turbulence before WWI broke out). The period 1890 - 1910 is often called La Belle Epoque (the Beautiful Time): people had got used to the idea of peace, and the Industrial Revolution was just starting to result in prosperity even for ordinary people (some of them). Yeats is thinking back to those beautiful times of his childhood, and how they are now gone forever.
(Yeats would revisit this theme in Leda and the Swan, a few years later).
The "ceremony of innocence" in "The Second Coming" suggests a loss of purity and naivety in the face of chaos and darkness. It conveys the idea that innocence is being corrupted or destroyed by the turbulent events described in the poem.
This quote, from W.B. Yeats' poem "The Second Coming," suggests a loss of purity and goodness in the world. It reflects a sense of chaos and moral decay, where innocence is overwhelmed or destroyed by darker forces.
Chinua Achebe takes his title "Things Fall Apart" from William Butler Yeats' poem, "The Second Coming". The poem states that in the state of anarchy, things fall apart. Achede substitutes colonialism for anarchy and the death of the Ibo culture and religion by missionaries, who replaced their native values with Christianity for "The ceremony of Innocence drowned" in Yeat's poem.
Second Coming Press was created in 1972.
Second Coming - band - was created in 1990.
Second Coming - band - ended in 2009.
The Second Coming - poem - was created in 1920.
The Second Coming - novel - was created in 1980.
it is coming out at Christmas that is the second series.
The Second Coming of Suzanne was created in 1974.
There is no first or second coming in Judaism, that is a strictly Christian concept.
i do believe in the second Coming
It is the predicted coming of Jesus Christ a second time on the earth... after his first reported coming in Jerusalem where he was crucified.