The Second Coming vs. Things Fall Apart 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 …showed first 75 words of 838 total…

…showed last 75 words of 838 total…art. Okonkwo new the end of his culture was coming so he tries to do whatever he can to stop it. After years of hopelessness he finally sees a way out through death. In "The Second Coming" there is no way to stop the apocalypse from happening. So the world becomes helpless and falls victim to "The Second Coming". The stories that both the book and the poem told were of life's end. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**