References:Unit 8 OverviewW. B. Yeats. The Second Coming. 1919

Compare two of the assigned works of literature from the entire course that you believe make contrary claims about human potential in our fallen world. In what details are their differences most apparent?The conflict of "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" is best identified as human versus self. A meditation on unused human potential, the conditions of county life, and mortality, An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard was one of the best known elegies in the language. The line that shows the existence of unrecognized human nature was "full many a flow’r is born to blush unseen". (Gray)

Crane, Stephen. The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. Gray, Thomas. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.