... references in "The Second Coming" in order to evoke the inevitable downfall of the Christian era. The biblical allusion to the "blood-dimmed tide" from Revelations also serves to describe the horrors of WWI. Hybridity of such allusions is also employed in the evocation of the "Spiritus Mundi" which conflates the traditional Christian notion of " ... ;Spiritus Sanctus" with pagan allusion as a means to reflect the changing of the world. The shift between the local and global in these allusions reflects significantly the changing paradigm as Yeats' reconciles himself to the inexorable ...

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... what is meant by a classic and how and why these texts should be elevated to the ranks of the literary canon. The canon is often debated in relation to the biblical canon. For the purposes of this essay it is not strictly relevant to dwell on this comparison. However, the definitions of the two are intertwined historically because the literary canon ... has taken on a similar nature to the biblical canon. The word originates from kanon' a Greek word meaning instrument of measure and has developed to connote a list of important authors and their works, concerned with sorting the "orthodo...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate