... Second Coming is related to Achebe's Things Fall Apart William Butler Yeats wrote his "The Second Coming" in January of 1919, three years after the Easter Rebellion of 1916 and after the First World War had ... of rebellion, and within Irish society the Protestant Ascendancy had lost its grip. "The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold," wrote Yeats in the second and third line of "The Second Coming." Those lines are directly followed by a much less subtle way of expressing the idea of chaos; " ... Coming" because they show an outbreak of anarchy, and...

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• Grade Level: High School