Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion - lines 11-12
...
The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley - lines 52-55
...
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. - lines 95-98
The Hollow Men is a poem by T. S. Eliot, divided into five parts and consists of 98 lines. Eliot's New York Times obituary in 1965 identified the final four as "probably the most quoted lines of any 20th-century poet writing in English". It follows the otherworldly journey of the spiritually dead. These "hollow men" are broken, lost souls. They fail to transform their motions into actions, conception to creation, desire to fulfillment. They did not put any good or evil into the world so they cannot move on into the afterlife.
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion - lines 11-12
...
The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley - lines 52-55
...
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. - lines 95-98
The Hollow Men is a poem by T. S. Eliot, divided into five parts and consists of 98 lines. Eliot's New York Times obituary in 1965 identified the final four as "probably the most quoted lines of any 20th-century poet writing in English". It follows the otherworldly journey of the spiritually dead. These "hollow men" are broken, lost souls. They fail to transform their motions into actions, conception to creation, desire to fulfillment. They did not put any good or evil into the world so they cannot move on into the afterlife.