This poem's final stanza is quoted at the end of Tracy Letts' play August: Osage County by Johanna. The stanzas of this poem's final sections end with quotations of the Lord's Prayer and the statement "life is very long." This poem includes a mock-nursery rhyme beginning "here we go round the prickly pear." The speaker reflects "the eyes are not here" while describing figu
This poem's final stanza is quoted at the end of Tracy Letts' play August: Osage County by Johanna. The stanzas of this poem's final sections end with quotations of the Lord's Prayer and the statement "life is very long." This poem includes a mock-nursery rhyme beginning "here we go round the prickly pear." The speaker reflects "the eyes are not here" while describing figures who "grope together and avoid speech." The title figures are described as "leaning together headpiece filled with straw." The statement "this is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a whimper" concludes, for 10 points, what T.S. Eliot poem about a group of empty men?