Which of the following famous literary lines is contained in William Butler Yeats' poem "The Second Coming" ?
Correct answer: C. "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold"
- A. "Hearing of harvests rotting in the valleys"
- B. "And we rebuild our cities, not dream of islands"
- C. "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold"
- D. "Mother died today"
Explanation
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” is the most famous line from Yeats’s The Second Coming, expressing the poem’s vision of social and spiritual collapse. The other lines belong to different writers or works.
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