The speaker of this poem wears elaborate disguises like "Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves" and "Behaves as the wind behaves." Later, he notes "There are no eyes here, In this valley of dying stars, in this broken jaw of our lost kingdoms." The last section of this poem declares that "between the conception and the creation," and "between the emotion and the response" lies the Shadow, which appears after children "go round the prickly pear at five o'clock in the morning." The last lines of this poem repeat "This is the way the world ends" three times, ending "not with a bang, but a whimper." The epigraph to this po
The speaker of this poem wears elaborate disguises like "Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves" and "Behaves as the wind behaves." Later, he notes "There are no eyes here, In this valley of dying stars, in this broken jaw of our lost kingdoms." The last section of this poem declares that "between the conception and the creation," and "between the emotion and the response" lies the Shadow, which appears after children "go round the prickly pear at five o'clock in the morning." The last lines of this poem repeat "This is the way the world ends" three times, ending "not with a bang, but a whimper." The epigraph to this poem references Heart of Darkness by declaring "Mistah Kurtz-- he dead," while the first stanza of this poem calls the title characters "stuffed men, leaning together, heads filled with straw." For 10 points, identify this work by T. S. Eliot.
The speaker of this poem wears elaborate disguises like "Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves" and "Behaves as the wind behaves.
"The {Hollow} Men"