Melancholetta

The Master of Allusions

Hey,

The Hollow Men...Yet another poem of T.S.Eliot's which is densely layered with his typical literary allusions.Like many of his better known works like the waste land, four quartets and the love song of prufrock, this is also drenched with dreadful imagery....the poem is a wee bit long, so I am sending only the last few lines...

from
The Hollow Men

Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow

Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

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


And do check out ,"Whispers of Immortality" by Eliot...his fascination with death and darkness is evident in this particular poem too...

Cheers,
Krithika

posted by Dileepan @ 7:46 PM