Quotes from bookThe Hollow Men
"The Hollow Men" is a poem by T. S. Eliot. Its themes are, like those of many of Eliot's poems, overlapping and fragmentary, but it is recognized to be concerned most with post–World War I Europe under the Treaty of Versailles , the difficulty of hope and religious conversion, and, as some critics argue, Eliot's own failed marriage . The poem is divided into five parts and consists of 98 lines of which the last four are "probably the most quoted lines of any 20th-century poet writing in English".
T.S. Eliot book The Hollow Men
Variant: Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
Source: The Hollow Men (1925)
T.S. Eliot book The Hollow Men
A quotation of a traditional Guy Fawkes Night saying
The Hollow Men (1925)
T.S. Eliot book The Hollow Men
The Hollow Men (1925) <br class="br">Context: This is the dead land<br>This is cactus land<br>Here the stone images<br>Are raised, here they receive<br>The supplication of a dead man's hand<br>Under the twinkle of a fading star.<br>[... ]<br>The eyes are not here<br>There are no eyes here<br>In this valley of dying stars<br>In this hollow valley<br>This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms<br> In this last of meeting places<br>We grope together<br>And avoid speech<br> http://aduni.org/~heather/occs/honors/Notesonpoem.htm#fiftysevensixtyGathered on this beach of the tumid river<br> Sightless, unless<br>The eyes reappear http://aduni.org/~heather/occs/honors/Notesonpoem.htm#sixtyonesixtytwo<br> As the perpetual star<br>Multifoliate rose http://aduni.org/~heather/occs/honors/Notesonpoem.htm#sixtyfoursixtythree<br>Of death's twilight kingdom<br>The hope only<br>Of empty men.
T.S. Eliot book The Hollow Men
The Hollow Men (1925)
Variant: Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow.
“Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us”
T.S. Eliot book The Hollow Men
if at all — not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
The Hollow Men (1925)
