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Brutal Imagery and Subtle Allegory in a Period of Crisis Butler Yeats wrote two of his poems Easter 1916 and The Second Coming during the era of Irish political instability and agitation for freedom from Britain (Yoon 467). In his poem he gives an allusion to the people who fought for the independence of the country from the British rule. Butler through his poems, states that the British used manipulation to ensure that they maintained their power over the Irish people (Chang 57). The British s...