" This poem's final lines are "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper."
The fourth part of this poem alludes to Dante's Paradiso in its description of "the perpetual star / Multifoliate rose." This poem imagines "lips that would kiss" that "form prayers to broken stone" in its third section, which begins "this is the dead land." It quotes Joseph Conrad's line "Life is very long" and fragments of the Lord's Prayer in its final section, which observes "between the idea / and the reality… falls the shadow." Its first stanza describes the title characters as "shape without form, shade without color, Paralysed force, gesture without motion." This poem's final lines are "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper." For 10 points, name this poem by T. S. Eliot whose title characters are spiritually empty.
The fourth part of this poem alludes to Dante's Paradiso in its description of "the perpetual star / Multifoliate rose.
"The Hollow Men" &lt;Thompson&gt;