Abstract
W.B Yeats’ poetry is rich in myth, symbols and imagery. His symbolic poems represent a variety of things. Yeats believed that ‘art and politics were intrinsically linked’ and used his writing to express his attitudes toward Irish politics as well as to educate his readers about Irish cultural history. His poems increasingly resembled political manifestos of the contemporary period. His symbolic poems also speak about the present social and political doctrine. Myth is used in Yeats’s poetry to provide a rationale for social customs and observances by which people conducts their lives. The anti-Christ idea in “The Second Coming” is against humanity and in favor of present brutality on the strike of the people of Bangladesh. In this poem Yeats shows the religious and fundamental belief of different political and social groups. His poem “The Second Coming” is closely related with the present brutality, anti-peace movement and genocide in Bangladesh. The ‘Rough Beast’ in the poem ‘The Second Coming’- a horrific, violent animal, a ferocious creature indicates the chaotic situation among the political, cultural, social and religious groups in the contemporary period. The poem is as like an Oracle described the recent fearful and destructive activities and thought in Bangladesh. Key words: Anti- Christ, anti-peace idea and activities in politics, myth, religion, symbols, Yeats, “The Second Coming”, Bangladesh.
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