Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
The Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe got the title for his famous book Things Fall Apart from Yeats' Poem "The Second Coming." It's a poem about the arrival of a scary monster (run for your lives!).
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Yeats won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 for his poetry, which was described by the Nobel committee as giving "expression to the spirit of a whole nation." Talk about achievement.
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Yeats proposed to Maude Gonne, the love of his life, four times. She rejected him all four times. Maybe now we know what "The Song of Wandering Aengus" is really about?
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