The Revival in Yeats' Second Coming and Eliot's Journey of the MagiThe "Second Coming" of William Butler Yeats and the "Journey TS Eliot's Magi presents a renewal process, but each focuses on different goals and subjects; Eliot on the transformation of a particular person, while Yeats predicts a renovation of the entire world following an escalation of chaos. And while Yeats attempts to present an accurate picture of what he believes will happen at the time of this renovation, as a human being the lack of foresight leaves him concluding with nothing more than an unanswered question . Eliot, on the other hand, uses ambiguity to support and develop his theme: death is the path to rebirth. But for Eliot this rebirth, which must necessarily be obscure, is full of doubts, accompanied by pain, and extremely perplexing for the newborn (www.fgcu* 6). Eliot uses vague diction and imagery, and his narrative tone evolves into a philosophical and doubtful discourse. In contrast, Yeats maintains a pessimistic tone created by his futility in the face of the bleak situation the world is moving toward. Instead of projecting an inevitable and pessimistic demise of the Christian era and a renewal of the world as Yeats does in his poem "Second Coming", Eliot presents the renewal of a Magus, his way of life and his beliefs to following the birth of the Christian era. Yeats views the world and civilization as a cycle: the world revolves over a period of two thousand years, and starts again every two thousand years ("Twenty centuries... at last come again"). Yeats's view may lead to an initial answer about the inevitability of the end of the world, and therefore no reason to worry, but his pessimistic view results from...... middle of paper .... .. Message from Eliot, death results in rebirth. Works Cited http://www.en.utexas.edu/~benjamin/316kf...studentprojects/kiplingyeats/falcon.htmlhttp://orchard.cortland.edu/intropoetry/essaytwo/bethka(cc).htmlhttp:// www.fgcu.edu/~wohlpart/eliot.html#poemKeane, Patrick J. Yeats's Interactions with Tradition. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987. Peterson, Richard F. William Butler Yeats. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982. Pinion, F. B. A. T. S. Eliot Companion. Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble Books, 1986. Raffel, Burton. TS Eliot. New York: Frederick Publishing Co., 1982. Unterecker, John. A Reader's Guide to William Butler Yeats. New York: Octagon Publishers, 1983. Williamsson, George. A Reader's Guide to TS Eliot; a poem by poem analysis. New York: octagonal books, 1966.