Things Fall Apart and The Second Coming Essay -- comparison compare co

Things Fall Apart and The Second Coming           The Second Coming       By William Butler Yeats           Turning and turning in the enlarging gyre         The bird of prey can't hear the falconer,         Things self-destruct; the inside can't hold;         Mere turmoil is released upon the world,         The blood-diminished tide is released, and all over         The service of guiltlessness is suffocated         The best absence everything being equal, while the most noticeably awful         Are brimming with energetic force.           Chinua Achebe based his story, Things Fall Apart, on the sonnet by William Butler Yeats called The Second Coming. These two bits of writing have numerous similitudes yet no differenc...