Question

The title of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is an allusion to a(n) _____. Igbo folktale Nigerian short story novel by Joseph Conrad poem by William Butler Yeats

Answer 1

poem by William Butler Yeats

Answer 2

The correct answer is poem by William Butler Yeats.

It comes from the lines of a poem of William Butler Yeats called The Second Coming. It is the beginning of the third line after he says that the falcon can no longer hear the falconer and he adds that the world is falling apart. Achebe made an allusion to this.