Ts eliot poems the hollow men

Modernist poem by T. S. Eliot

For other uses, see The Hollow Men (disambiguation).

The Hollow Men
Eliot in
Written
Country	England
Language	English
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Publication date
Lines	98
Quote	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.[1]

"The Hollow Men" () is a poem by the modernist writer T.

S. Eliot. Like much of his work, its themes are overlapping and fragmentary, concerned with post–World War I Europe under the Treaty of Versailles, hopelessness, religious conversion, redemption and, some critics argue, his failing marriage with Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot.^[2] It was published two years before Eliot converted to Anglicanism.^[3]

Divided into five parts, the poem is 98 lines long.

Eliot's New York Times obituary in identified the final four as "probably the most quoted lines