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Orikinla (m)
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Who is the author of these words, things fall apart?
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BlackMamba (m)
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The title of the book {Things Fall Apart} comes from a poem, "The Second Coming," by William Butler Yeats, and is quoted in the frontpiece of the book:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
- Wikipidia.
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uzygirl (f)
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Hmm, Interesting. I would have replied C. Achebe without blinking.  |
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mukina2 (f)
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The title of the book {Things Fall Apart} comes from a poem, "The Second Coming," by William Butler Yeats, and is quoted in the frontpiece of the book:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
- Wikipidia.
i did this peom in school and i did things fall apart too in junior secondary  we gave most of our teachers nicknames coined from that book |
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Orikinla (m)
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The title of the book {Things Fall Apart} comes from a poem, "The Second Coming," by William Butler Yeats, and is quoted in the frontpiece of the book:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
- Wikipidia.
Right. And I actually believe the poem has more depth than Achebe's novel. The poem is timeless and speaks volume for even the chaos of these interesting times from Africa to the Middle East. |
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LiquidMind (m)
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I think William Butler Yeats got that insight of his poem from the beginning of the European medieval Greek Empire
How the European all most dominated the world with their wars and crusade to this very day,
Since then the world is never the same
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naijacutee (f)
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You would never believe this but just yesterday, in church, the speaker read out the first verse of "The Second Coming" poem by W.B Yeats and I was like "Wait a minute. . . Isn't that Things fall apart?"
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Orikinla (m)
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You would never believe this but just yesterday, in church, the speaker read out the first verse of "The Second Coming" poem by W.B Yeats and I was like "Wait a minute. . . Isn't that Things fall apart?"
Just as we were discussing it! What a coincidence. |
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agnesoseka
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i wish NTA can bring back the things fall apart series again i miss it, I studied it in senior secondary,quiet an interesting book.
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sexylisa (f)
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chinua achebe. omg u have made me miss my high scholl days in Ghana. we used that book for our english literature. that book is the bomb and i started reading it since i was in primary school.
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