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"Things Fall Apart" Vs. "The Second Coming" - College Essays

"Things Fall Apart" Vs. "The Second Coming"



"The Second Coming"
By William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer,
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosened upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosened, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned
The best lack of all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.



Chinua Achebe based his story, "Things Fall Apart," on the poem by
William Butler Yeats called "The Second Coming." These two pieces of
literature have many similarities but no differences.
When analyzing the poem, "The Second Coming," I notice that ...

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has
put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart. I
think that Achebe is trying to give William Butler Yeats some type of
recognition because in the beginning of the book, Achebe included a stanza
from the poem.

"The blood-dimmed tide is loosened, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned"

First of all, I think this means that once the white missionaries
interfere with their religion, it could encourage the whites to feel they
could do anything to their society and the people would not say anything.
For example, After the white missionaries introduced their religion, they
tried to introduce British law and force them upon villagers. "The ceremony
of innocence is drowned" could mean that the Ibo society's culture is done
away with and can only come back if they put up with a fight.
Although Okonkwo attempted to arrange a fight against the Christian
religion, it was always stopped. After the British convert some ...

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