The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats is a powerful poem depicting an apocalyptic vision. The poem was written after The Great War, or WWI, as it was known then. It was fought by nearly every major world power and was meant to be the "war to end all wars." Now, we can see this was not the case. However, the poem was meant to signify that the world would be forever changed after this war which wiped out a large portion of the world's infrastructures and populations. To Yeats, the current global situation did not hold and there was good reason to believe in the coming of a new world order.
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