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In a typical 'doomsday fashion', the Second Coming fears for survival (spiritual and literal) of mankind. Not to say that it is an insignificant poem, because it is not. The fact that the 'deeper idea' presented in the poem will be familar to nearly all audiences is part of what makes the poem timeless. What this poem is saying in 1920, people would still say today in 2008:
"...the center cannot hold;...surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand..."
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