In which work do you read: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. " ?
Correct answer: D. The Second Coming
- A. The Canturbury Tales
- B. The Dark Angel
- C. The Wild Swans of Coole
- D. The Second Coming
Explanation
The lines “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” open the second stanza of W. B. Yeats's “The Second Coming.” The poem describes cultural disorder after the First World War.
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