Opening with an epigraph from Heart of Darkness and a dedication offering "a penny for the Old Guy", it concludes with an imperfect repetition of the Lord's Prayer, having earlier described "stuffed men leaning together, headpiece filled with straw".
The title characters are described as having "dried voices when (they) whisper", uttering sounds as "quiet and meaningless as rat's feet over broken glass". Its fifth canto begins with a parody of "Here we go round the mulberry bush", replacing the bush with the prickly pear. Opening with an epigraph from Heart of Darkness and a dedication offering "a penny for the Old Guy", it concludes with an imperfect repetition of the Lord's Prayer, having earlier described "stuffed men leaning together, headpiece filled with straw". FTP, what is this T.S. Eliot poem which ends with the words "This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but a whimper"?
The title characters are described as having "dried voices when (they) whisper", uttering sounds as "quiet and meaningless as rat's feet over broken glass".
The Hollow Men