Here we go round the prickly pear" and ends by noting that "the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper."
The speaker of one poem by this man wishes he'd "been a pair of ragged claws" after earlier asking "how should I presume?" and describing women that "come and go/Talking of Michelangelo". Another of his works contains the refrain "Here we go round the prickly pear" and ends by noting that "the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper." His best-known poem ends "Shantih shantih shantih" and opens by calling April "the cruellest month". For 10 points, name this author of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "Hollow Men", and "The Waste Land".
The speaker of one poem by this man wishes he'd "been a pair of ragged claws" after earlier asking "how should I presume?" and describing women that "come and go/
Thomas Stearns {Eliot}