the second comming

Yeats' poem "The Second Coming," depicts the approach of a new world order and demonstrates the concept that change is inevitable. “The Second Coming” also taps into the concept of the gyre. The gyre is the idea that history occurs in cycles, specifically cycles "twenty centuries" in length (ln. 19). In this poem, Yeats predicts that the Christian era will soon give way apocalyptically to an era ruled by a desert beast with a “lion body and the head of a man” (ln. 14). Yeats describes the beast's eyes as "pitiless as the sun" (ln. 15), and it is fol

Things Fall Apart was published in 1958 during the Nigerian renaissance, and it’s theme also deals with the notion that change is unavoidable. It is the story of an Ibo village of the late 1800's and one of its great men, Okonkwo, who has achieved much in his life. He is a champion wrestler, a wealthy farmer, a husband to three wives and he was a title-holder among his people. “Although Okonkwo was still young, he was one of the greatest men of his time” (p. 12). Things begin to fall apart, with the appearance of the white men in Africa and with the introduction of Christianity. Okonkwo is unable to adapt to the changes that accompany colonialism. In the end, in frustration, he kills an African that works for the British, and then commits suicide, a sin against the tradition to which he had been a part of for so long. “Okonkwo stood looking at the dead man…He wiped his machete on the sand and went away”

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