Poetry Connection

Poetry does not play a big role in the novel Things Fall Apart. Chinua Achebe includes a few poems throughout the novel. These poems are very meaningful. What they lack in quantity they make up in quality. The poems in this novel were very descriptive and full of many emotions. These pomes added a lot to the novel. They were not directly connected to the characters but they did enhance the reading by creating more of an image of the plot. I believe that Chinua Achebe was not trying to make poetry a big part in this novel because the small amount of poetry created the right picture for the book.