The Hollow Men

The Hollow Men
The Hollow Men
by T. S. Eliot
	Eliot in 1923
Written	1925
Country	England
Language	English
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Publication date	1925
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.

"The Hollow Men" (1925) 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 1965 identified the final four as "probably the most quoted lines of any 20th-century poet writing in English".^[4]

^ Eliot, T. S. (1927) [1925]. Poems 1909–1925. London: Faber & Faber, 128.
^ See, for instance, the work of one of Eliot's editors and major critics, Ronald Schuchard.
^ Swarbrick, Andrew (1988). Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 45.
^ "T.S. Eliot, the Poet, is Dead in London at 76". The New York Times. 5 January 1965. Retrieved 10 December 2013.

[Eliot1925p128-1] Eliot, T. S. (1927) [1925]. Poems 1909–1925. London: Faber & Faber, 128.

[:0-2] See, for instance, the work of one of Eliot's editors and major critics, Ronald Schuchard.

[3] Swarbrick, Andrew (1988). Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 45.

[obit-4] "T.S. Eliot, the Poet, is Dead in London at 76". The New York Times. 5 January 1965. Retrieved 10 December 2013.

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