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Things Fall Apart and The Second Coming        The Second Coming      By William Butler Yeats         Turning and turning in the widening gyre        The falcon cannot hear the falconer,        Things fall apart the centre cannot hold        Mere anarchy is loosened upon the world,        The blood-dimmed tide is loosened, and everywhere        The ceremony of innocence is drowned        The best lack of all convictions, while the worst        Are full of passionate intensity.         Chinua Achebe based his story, Things Fall Apart, on the poem byWilliam Butler Yeats called The Second Coming. These two pieces ofliterature have many similarities but no differenc...