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Chinua Achebe takes his title "Things Fall Apart" from William Butler Yeats' poem, "The Second Coming". The poem states that in the state of anarchy, things fall apart. Achede substitutes colonialism for anarchy and the death of the Ibo culture and religion by missionaries, who replaced their native values with Christianity for "The ceremony of Innocence drowned" in Yeat's poem.

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