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 shows 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 …showed first 75 words of 856 total…

…showed last 75 words of 856 total…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. Humans have to face the inevitable mortality of their own beings. The only way to achieve happiness and homeostatis is to be internally satisfied from within. Like the ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**