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The Hollow Men
Written and published in 1925 by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Excerpt (Epigraph plus the first three stanzas, and then skipping to the last stanza):
Mistah Kurtz – he dead.
A penny for the Old Guy.
We are the hollow men,
We are the stuffed men.
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together,
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rat’s feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar.
Shape without form, shade without color,
Paralyzed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death’s other kingdom
Remember us – if at all - not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men,
The stuffed men.
...............................
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
Not with a bang but a whimper.
Reference - http://mural.uv.es/rubafa/hollowmen.htm
Written and published in 1925 by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Excerpt (Epigraph plus the first three stanzas, and then skipping to the last stanza):
Mistah Kurtz – he dead.
A penny for the Old Guy.
We are the hollow men,
We are the stuffed men.
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together,
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rat’s feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar.
Shape without form, shade without color,
Paralyzed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death’s other kingdom
Remember us – if at all - not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men,
The stuffed men.
...............................
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
Not with a bang but a whimper.
Reference - http://mural.uv.es/rubafa/hollowmen.htm