Who wrote: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold " ?
Correct answer: A. William Butler Yeats
- A. William Butler Yeats
- B. James Joyce
- C. Thomas Moore
- D. Edgar Allan Poe
Explanation
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” is from Yeats's “The Second Coming.” The line expresses the poem's vision of social and spiritual disorder after the collapse of established structures.
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