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The book

Things Fall Apart , by Chinua Achebe , is very similar to the

poem , "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats. A

comparison of "The Second Coming" to Things Fall Apart

will show many corresponding aspects between both of

these literary masterpieces. Seeing the line "Things fall apart"

in the poem , Achebe makes an outstanding association. At

this point in time he says to himself, "I should name my book

Things Fall Apart , It will show the main idea of the book."

One of the many coinciding concepts between the two is the

daunted apprehension of both the poem and the book. In

Things Fall Apart it seems like whenever the main character,

Okonkwo, gains hope things happen to fall apart . The

contents of "The Second Coming" told of a chaotic world

and a base that could not hold because of it's own inner

conflicts. In Addition to the synonymous feeling both the

book and the poem give, they both expose a great shift from

and old era to a new era. "The Second......

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