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...
the future . Chinua Achebe and William Butler Yeats make this idea understandable to us by using it in their works of art.

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.