LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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“Hearing of harvests rotting in the valleys”
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“And we rebuild our cities, not dream of islands”
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“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”
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“Mother died today”
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Detailed explanation-1: -The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
Detailed explanation-2: -In Yates interpretation of “the center cannot hold” he describes it as a situation where everything is out of control, a place where you cannot feel safe anymore because the “center” which holds everything together can no longer hold the weight and collapses whereby everything falls apart.
Detailed explanation-3: -blank verse, unrhymed iambic pentameter, the preeminent dramatic and narrative verse form in English and also the standard form for dramatic verse in Italian and German.
Detailed explanation-4: -The action of Things Fall Apart centers on the fictional village of Umuofia, which is part of a larger political entity made up by the so-called “nine villages.”
Detailed explanation-5: -"the centre cannot hold", a phrase from the poem “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats.