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struggle4progress

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11. The Hollow Men

Reply to gopiscrap (Original post)

Fri Aug 24, 2018, 04:54 PM

Aug 2018

... We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw ...

In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river ...

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow ...

This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

https://www.shmoop.com/hollow-men/poem-text.html