Answer: A. The poem "The Second Coming" is in many ways connected to the theme of tradition vs. change.
Explanation:
"The Second Coming" is a poem written by William Butler Yeats, in 1919. Its theme revolves around how changes occur not only in mundane affairs, but also in spirituality. It's a cyclical path, leading humankind to darkness before enlightenment. Yeats, many years after writing the poem, wrote in a letter to a friend that the poem had predicted the rise of Nazism and the horrors of the Second World War. The poem's name is a Christian reference to the return of Jesus Christ to this world, when sins will be judged, and the Earth will be purified.
As for Chinua Achebe, he uses the sentence "things fall apart" as the title of a novel, which also has change as an important aspect. The sentence "things fall apart" is in the third line of "The Second Coming". Achebe most likely used it on purpose, as a reference to the poem, but that is not enough to make options b, c, or d of this question correct.
