In actual falconry, the bird is not supposed to keep flying in circles forever it is eventually supposed to come back and land on the falconer’s glove. In medieval times, people would use falcons or hawks to track down animals at ground level.

The poem begins with the image of a falcon flying out of earshot of its human master. The specifics of the poem are also incredibly relevant to Things Fall Apart as a whole. To enlighten them on the point of view of the colonized. In a way, Achebe uses the language of the colonizer (literally and figuratively) By using lines from “ The Second Coming” as the introduction to his book, Achebe points out parallels between a time of chaos in European history and the upheaval caused by the European colonization of Africa.

Unfortunately, the rise of Hitler and fascism in the 1930s proved him largely correct, and many have found the poem disturbingly prophetic in light of the later wars of the twentieth century. While many people at the time just wanted to get on with their lives, Yeats thought that European society had pretty much broken down, and the poem is a terrifying prediction of future violence. Yeats’s poem was first published in 1920, a year after the end of World War I, “the Great War,” in which millions of Europeans died. – W.B Yeats, ' The Second Coming' The epigraph is the first four lines of “ The Second Coming,” easily one of the most famous and frequently quoted poems in all of Western (and apparently Nigerian) literature.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart, the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

Things fall apart yeats