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Things Fall Apart by Orikinla(m): 2:37pm On Mar 03, 2007 |
Who is the author of these words, things fall apart? |
Re: Things Fall Apart by BlackMamba(m): 6:43pm On Mar 03, 2007 |
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. |
Re: Things Fall Apart by uzygirl(f): 9:27pm On Mar 04, 2007 |
Hmm, Interesting. I would have replied C. Achebe without blinking. |
Re: Things Fall Apart by mukina2: 9:32pm On Mar 04, 2007 |
BlackMamba: 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 |
Re: Things Fall Apart by Orikinla(m): 10:43pm On Mar 04, 2007 |
BlackMamba: 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. |
Re: Things Fall Apart by LiquidMind(m): 12:45am On Mar 05, 2007 |
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 |
Re: Things Fall Apart by naijacutee(f): 5:37am On Mar 05, 2007 |
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?" |
Re: Things Fall Apart by Orikinla(m): 1:59pm On Mar 05, 2007 |
naijacutee: Just as we were discussing it! What a coincidence. |
Re: Things Fall Apart by agnesoseka: 10:32am On Mar 27, 2007 |
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. |
Re: Things Fall Apart by sexylisa(f): 7:43pm On Apr 07, 2007 |
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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