Director/animator Eoin Duffy’s minimalist animation stands in stark contrast to English actor Jack Cutmore-Scott’s fraught reading of William Butler Yeats’ “The Second Coming” in this film commissioned by TED-Ed.

Poet: William Butler Yeats
Director: Eoin Duffy
Narrator: Jack Cutmore-Scott
Animator: Eoin Duffy
Designer: Eoin Duffy