" The source for the title of Chinua Achebe's (ah-CHAY-bay) novel Things Fall
This poem's second stanza describes a shape with a lion's body and a man's head and ends by asking what rough beast "Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born." The source for the title of Chinua Achebe's (ah-CHAY-bay) novel Things Fall Apart, this poem also notes that "The falcon cannot hear the falconer" and it begins with the line "Turning and turning in the widening gyre." For 10 points, name this poem by William Butler Yeats whose title references Christ's return to Earth.
This poem's second stanza describes a shape with a lion's body and a man's head and ends by asking what rough beast "Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born.
“The Second {Coming}”