Do I dare / disturb the universe?"
The speaker of one poem by this author fears "Eyes I dare not meet in dreams," which supposedly do not appear "in death's dream kingdom." This poet wrote "in the beginning is my end" in a poem divided into sections such as "The Dry Salvages" and "Burnt Norton." The narrator of another poem by this author wonders (*) "Do I dare / disturb the universe?" This author wrote "this is the way the world ends / not with a bang, but a whimper" in his poem "The Hollow Men." For 10 points, name this American-born British poet of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Waste Land."
The speaker of one poem by this author fears "Eyes I dare not meet in dreams," which supposedly do not appear "in death's dream kingdom."
Thomas Stearns {Eliot}