"Things Fall Apart" Vs. "The Second Coming"

Part I of Essay
"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, ....

Part II of Essay
.... The poem stated that things fall apart when the center cannot hold. At the bottom of page 176, Obierika quoted that the white man has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart. I think that Achebe is trying to give William Butler Yeats some type of recognition because in the beginning of the book, Achebe included a stanza from the poem. "The blood-dimmed tide is loosened, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned" First of all, I think this means that once the whi ....