In a field", while its first section includes the paradoxical phrases "shape without form, shade without colour" and "gesture without motion".
Nevil Shute took the epigraph for his novel On the Beach from this poem. The second section of this poem lists such "deliberate disguises" as "rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves / In a field", while its first section includes the paradoxical phrases "shape without form, shade without colour" and "gesture without motion". Its third section describes figures "gathered on this beach of the tumid river" and begins with the line "The (*) eyes are not here", echoing its earlier image of "eyes I dare not meet in dreams". This poem's final section describes seven pairs of locations between which "falls the shadow", opens with a faux-nursery rhyme beginning "Here we go 'round the prickly pear", and ends with the lines "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but with a whimper". For 10 points, name this poem by T.S. Eliot.
Nevil Shute took the epigraph for his novel On the Beach from this poem.
"The Hollow Men"