The Poet: T. S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men”
“The Hollow Men”
“Between the idea
And the reality,
Between the motion
And the act,
Falls the Shadow...
Between the conception
And the creation,
Between the emotion
And the response,
Falls the Shadow...
Between the desire
And the spasm,
Between the potency
And the existence,
Between the essence
And the descent,
Falls the Shadow...
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.”
- T. S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men”
And the reality,
Between the motion
And the act,
Falls the Shadow...
Between the conception
And the creation,
Between the emotion
And the response,
Falls the Shadow...
Between the desire
And the spasm,
Between the potency
And the existence,
Between the essence
And the descent,
Falls the Shadow...
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.”
- T. S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men”
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