And the reality.
A passage in this poem paraphrases from Julius Caesar and describes "Between the idea / And the reality." It borrows from the Lord's Prayer for the stuttering "For Thine is / Life is / For Thine is the," and images in this poem of (*) "Shape without form, shade without colour" and "Eyes I dare not meet in dreams" come from The Inferno. Phrases in it like "A Penny for the Old Guy" and "headpiece filled with straw" reference Guy Fawkes Day. This poem heavily references Heart of Darkness, as in the epigraph "Mistah Kurtz--he dead." For 10 points, name this T.S. Eliot poem concluding, "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper."
A passage in this poem paraphrases from Julius Caesar and describes "Between the idea /
“The Hollow Men”