This poem's epigraphs allude to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and to the tradition of burning Guy Fawkes in effigy. It includes a children's rhyme about a prickly pear, and notes that the title figures have their "headpieces filled with straw", and that their "dry voices" are "quiet and meaningl
This poem's epigraphs allude to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and to the tradition of burning Guy Fawkes in effigy. It includes a children's rhyme about a prickly pear, and notes that the title figures have their "headpieces filled with straw", and that their "dry voices" are "quiet and meaningless." For ten points, name this poem also about "the stuffed men" by T.S. Eliot, which asserts that the world ends "not with a bang but a whimper".
This poem's epigraphs allude to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and to the tradition of burning Guy Fawkes in effigy.
“The {Hollow Men}”