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 widening gyre the falcon cannot hear the falconer

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.

A fourth coinciding idea in "The Second Coming" and Things Fall Apart is the loss of control of a higher power over a lower power . In Things Fall Apart Okonkwo tries to teach Nwoye the old ways of their people . He also tries to make his son unlike Okonkwo's father . Nwoye wanted to be his own man . He didn't want to have to live up to the expectations of his father , Okonkwo . Nwoye takes on the ways of Christianity in hope of a better life . Okonkwo feels dishonored by Nwoye's turn towards Christianity. Okonkwo now looks his son as he did his father . Nwoye's move to Christianity shows the loss of Okonkwo's power over his life . In "The Second Coming" the loss of control is symbolized by the line "the falcon does not hear the falconer " . Where the falcon is the symbol of the lesser power and the falconer the symbol of the higher power . The line says that after time passes and changes take place powers change . The last reflective idea betwe

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