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 Coming" reveals an apocolypse. Yeats shows this change by describing the conversions our world, as a global community, made throughout history . Key lines that refer to these changes in time are "Turning and Turning in the wid

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 apocolypse 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.

Our world changes from day to day . Everything we do now reflects on how the future will be . If there is one concept one learns from comparing these two fine literary works . It is to not dwell on mistakes in the past but to make them up by doing well in the future . Chinua Achebe and William Butler Yeats make this idea understandable to us by using it in their works of art.

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