'The Hollow Men'

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Eliot's Poems 1909–1925 first editionCollection first edition

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"The Hollow Men"
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Author
T.S. Eliot, England

First publication
1925

Form
Poem

Writing language
English

Length
98 lines, approx. 500 words

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• Poems

Related pages ▽ Related pages △

• T.S. Eliot

• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

• The Waste Land

• Murder in the Cathedral

Notable lines

We are the hollow men

We are the stuffed men

leaning together

Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!

First lines

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper.

Last lines

 

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