For other uses, see The Hollow Men (disambiguation).
The Hollow Men
by T. S. Eliot
Eliot in 1923
Written
1925
Country
England
Language
English
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Publication date
1925
Lines
98
Quote
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.[1]
"The Hollow Men" (1925) is a poem by the modernist writer T. S. Eliot. Like much of his work, its themes are overlapping and fragmentary, concerned with post–World War I Europe under the Treaty of Versailles (which Eliot despised: compare "Gerontion"), hopelessness, religious conversion, redemption and, some critics argue, his failing marriage with Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot.[2] It was published two years before Eliot converted to Anglicanism.[3]
Divided into five parts, the poem is 98 lines long. 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".[4]
^Eliot, T. S. (1927) [1925]. Poems 1909–1925. London: Faber & Faber, 128.
^See, for instance, the work of one of Eliot's editors and major critics, Ronald Schuchard.
^Swarbrick, Andrew (1988). Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 45.
^"T.S. Eliot, the Poet, is Dead in London at 76". The New York Times. 5 January 1965. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
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