"The Second Coming" is a poem written by Irish poet W. B. Yeats in 1919. William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. This is a great poem by a Modernist instinctively but possibly unwittingly anticipating the forthcoming ravages of Modernism. What lessons can be learned today from the poem of 100 years ago? This is a bi-lingual English and Urdu write up for the readers of Bangbox Online.