This author of "Easter 1916" inspired Achebe with his line "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
This man wrote a poem in which the speaker asks the reader to "Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." In addition to "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven," he retold the Greek myth of Zeus appearing as a bird and raping a woman in "Leda and the Swan" and claimed "a terrible beauty is born" while describing an (*) Irish uprising in another poem. This author of "Easter 1916" inspired Achebe with his line "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." For ten points, who is this poet, who asked about a rough beast slouching back to Bethlehem to be born in "The Second Coming"?
This man wrote a poem in which the speaker asks the reader to "Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler {Yeats}