The social collapse of the Ibo people can be harmonized with Yeats's poetry during their collapse. The poem “The Second Coming” successfully describes the emotion felt by one or more people during times of war, anarchy, and even defeat. The African journey in this story and its untimely end are filled with the same emotion that WB Yeats expresses in his poetry. Both publications are a story of pain expressed at different times, in different languages, by different people. Yet their footprint remains the same. Towards the final chapters of Achebe's story, the white man had introduced himself to the geographical location of the tribes. Recklessly settle and intervene in the daily livelihood and functions of the Ibo people. Not soon after, Europeans' attention turned to the savage and archaic practices of the gangs, and they began to incorporate their systems of government and religion, so as to save them from themselves. Internally, however, the Ibo clans felt violated. The crimes committed against them, as they saw them, were unforgivable and implacable. This aroused not only fear in most cases, but in some, more dangerously, curiosity. Yeats introduced the first stanza of his poem; “there was an unraveling…” this is blatantly compared to those so removed from their own culture and practices when the new practices were introduced. “The worst of people had a passionate intensity.” These words are easily compared to white people imposing their values ​​where they were not welcome. In the second paragraph of the poem, Yeats quite passionately describes some of the emotions derived from the chaos, the dramatic prayer for revelation, and the internal disgust generated by the vision of wa... middle of paper... ...we speak, others sometimes not. Our author may have read this poem and felt predisposed to appropriately name his book an ode, or perhaps he read it and felt inspired to write his own interpretation as a personal response and passionate understanding of the same pain . As you can clearly see, there are lines of the poem that translate quite clearly into the summary of the story and vice versa. The relationship and nature between the content of the novel and the poem are almost identical, regardless of the length, method, or manner in which they are told. Which brings me to my conclusion; these works were both written from difficult places within, souls who endure, but men who hope. We are not so far from each other that we are not brothers and sisters, if out of chaos, we can create such harmony in separate worlds. Works Cited Things Fall Apart- Chinua AchebeThe Second Coming - WB Yeats